“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)
