2010: The Year of Happiness

Sorry for my lack of postings since July 2009! I'm still alive and well and wrote a bunch more new poetry from then til now... just that Facebook and MySpace took most of my attention. But this winter I'm taking a hibernation from those two websites, which means more regular posts here! :) And probably belated postings of the poems I wrote last year as well.

I opened my e-mail today and discovered that there was a new meetup group in Toronto called the "I Am Happy Project". It's kind of like the Optimist Evolution idea that Cathy and I came up with last summer, but under a different name. Life always seems to be on one step ahead of me in terms of bringing ideas to fruition, but it's all good, as long as someone is carrying out the work already.

There was an interesting quote on their main website (http://www.iamhappyproject.org/), which said that "According to Researchers from Harvard Medical School and the University of California, San Diego:
“When an individual becomes happy, the network effect can be measured up to three degrees. One person’s happiness triggers a chain reaction that benefits not only his friends, but his friends’ friends, and his friends’ friends’ friends. The effect lasts for up to one year.”

Happiness is potent stuff! For myself, consistent happiness became more of a reality in 2009, and I do see that my joy seem to rub off on others, and bring more cheer into their lives as well. What you give is what you get, as they say, and there's plenty of love and goodness to go all around.

So I heartily support the project's goal to "declare 2010 as The Year of Happiness"! May love, joy, hope and happiness abound throughout your life, with 2010 as the start of a beautiful transformation within you and into the world.