
Chicken Soup for the Soul Find Your Happiness
- Paperback: 380 pages
- Publisher: CSS Publishing (2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 978-1-935096-77-1
- SMRP: $14.95
I like to read but usually my free time is minutes not hours. Since I don’t like to be kept hanging, in times like that I pick up short stories. The Chicken Soup for the Soul series has some of the best. Their themes are well-chosen. The selections in them are real. Their messages heart-felt.
Just yesterday I picked up Chicken Soup For The Soul: Find Your Happiness. Its 101 inspirational stories about finding purpose, passion, and joy remind readers to appreciate life, overcome adversity, and enjoy simple things. It advises the reader to try counting blessings, fostering communications, knowing yourself and pursuing your passion, keep learning, find meaning, and find quiet. I know that whenever I accentuate the positive, the negative shrinks away. This was the various authors’ spins too.
Jennifer Quasada’s story The Happy Book awed me. Who could after her parents’ divorce, a mugging, losing two friends in an auto accident, and an assault would not feel low, miserable, depressed? She grew through it though and the birth of a child gave her better habits. At the end of each day, she wrote, “What made me happy today?” She saw the positive and could look back at the good in hard moments.
Miriam Hill’s narrative Wanting versus Having is ironically true. Everyone has hopes and ambitions. Having three sons myself, I could understand her son Steve at 16 dreaming of a Porsche. He worked to make it happen; the car exceeded expectations. However, obligations made his choice unrealistic, so he sold it telling his mother that wanting is more fun than having.
Megan Rivera’s tale of Coupon Bliss took me back to me in my 20′s…no responsibilities and no money sense. Time changed things, and along came balancing the checkbook and comparison shopping. Ms. Rivera’s question to herself, “What makes me happy?” is something we all ponder in each of our lives. Her answer, “Little moments,” is real.
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