so don’t give me any more excuses about that gloomy weather! :)
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on being happy
i’ve just read this quote on mareen fischinger’s blog (she’s an excellent photographer, btw):
“Being happy does not mean everything is perfect. It means you have decided to look beyond the imperfections.”
apparently, the quote is from albert camus. it stuck with me because i think it sums up rather beautifully my sentiments towards living in shanghai/china these days. in the beginning, we would whine about everything, from the non-queueing to the loud spitting on the floor, the messy and the dirty. and then somewhere in the middle of this year, slowly, things have started to change for me. i started to enjoy life here, in a way that i didn’t before. and i realized that all the imperfections were still there, but i wasn’t giving them as much importance. i wasn’t going to change them, so why bother with raising my eyebrow or complaining?
which sounds simple, but it isn’t. it’s kind of like finding the beauty in the chaos.
(and now i’m going to make some gingerbread cookies)
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on happiness ^3
three happy, unrelated facts:
* the other day, on the elevator, i was thinking my job title should be “i make people happy”, insted of webmarketing or something. because i think that’s what i do. i surf the internet all day reading blogs and forums, filtering information, listening to complaints and concerns, reviews and feedback, answering questions. oh, and i send out samples once in a while. everybody likes free samples, and sometimes they even say the nicest things of them. therefore, they’re happy, which makes me happy. :)
* postcards. 1 per minute. sheer happiness being received all around the world.
* on this map of web trends for 2008, based on shanghai’s own metro map, we live on the station “happiness”. it’s clearly a sign.