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Saturday 6 October 2012

23/365 - Stringing Together Small Pleasures (Ann Brashares)


“Maybe happiness didn't have to be about the big, 
sweeping circumstances,
 about having everything in your life in place. 

Maybe it was about stringing together 
a bunch of small pleasures. 

Wearing slippers and watching the Miss Universe contest. 
Eating a brownie with vanilla ice cream. 
Getting to level seven in Dragon Master 
and knowing there were twenty more levels to go.

Maybe happiness was just a matter of the little upticks- 
the traffic signal that said "Walk" 
the second you go there- 
and downticks- 
the itch tag at the back of your collar-
that happened to every person in the course of the day.

 Maybe everybody 
had the same allotted measure of happiness
 within each day.
Maybe it didn't matter
 if you were a world-famous heartthrob 
or a painful geek. 

Maybe it didn't matter if your friend was possibly dying.

Maybe you just got through it. 

Maybe that was all you could ask for.”

- Ann Brashares
(The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)

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