curious hearts
February 2011
day 57: what is your definition of happiness
I don’t think there’s a certain definition. It means something different to anyone.
Happiness is what you make for yourself. I think it’s being content with doing nothing, but feeling like you’re time is worth it anyway. It’s loving people no matter what happens and just feeling carefree and loved.
Must type up this essay by 9pm.
I have a friend who I love so much. I honestly do, she’s been a little beacon of light these past few months.
And I think she cares about me, but sometimes she really doesn’t act like it. She’s very guarded - one of those people who constantly keep up their walls to avoid being hurt.
But she can be so wrapped up in her own problems that I don’t think she recognises other people have feelings and problems too.
It’s difficult. I try and give her my help but I don’t get a word of thanks back. I don’t expect much, because people always disappoint, but it’d be nice to be appreciated.
It gets tiring to always be taken for granted.
Plans have been confirmed to build a Harry Potter theme park in the UK.
Excuse me for a moment
while I cry with happiness.
day 56: something you did as a child that other people remember you for
I’m really not sure. I don’t suppose I was a particularly memorable child.
day 55 - a passage from a book that has touched you
Was it disappointment? She had hardly expected to be forgiven. What she felt was more like homesickness, though there was no source for it, no home. But she was sad to leave her sister. It was her sister she missed - or more precisely, it was her sister with Robbie. Their love. Neither Briony nor the war had destroyed it…She knew what was required of her. Not simply a letter, but a new draft, an atonement, and she was ready to begin.
‘Atonement’ - Ian McEwan
