A technique to live a happy life: Yesterday I got this idea. I`ll call it my Happiness Journal. From now on, when a stranger, friend of family member is kind to me, I want to write the act of kindness down in a journal to remember it. Yesterday I was remembering a tailor near the university I was working at last Fall in Japan. I had ripped the seat of my dress pants sitting down at the end of the day (That gave me a good laugh). They had a 5 inch rip mostly along the seam, so I took them to the nearby tailor, a man who looked to be in his late 60`s or early 70`s. When he returned them to me nicely repaired, he would not take any money. It was an easy job! Don`t worry about it. he said in Japanese. The same tailor repaired another piece of clothing for me and charged me just $10 (1000 Japanese yen), an amount significantly lower than I expected. I asked him his name and he told me Mr. Saito. Arigatou Mr. Saito I told him. The world is full of stressed out crazy people who are not always nice, so it`s important to remember the people who do kind deeds for you. Remembering and appreciating these people will make you happy and balance your view of the world. And don`t forget to thank them. :-)
Posted on: Sun, 20 Oct 2013 03:59:34 +0000
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