happiness is what happens when you go to bed on the hottest night of the summer, a night so hot you cant even wear a tee-shirt and you sleep on top of the sheets instead of under them, although try to sleep is probably more accurate. And then at some point late, late, late at night, say just a bit before dawn, the heat finally breaks and the night turns into cool and when you briefly wake up, you notice that youre almost chilly, and in your groggy, half-consciousness, you reach over and pull the sheet around you and just that flimsy sheet makes it warm enough and you drift back off into a deep sleep. And its that reaching, that gesture, that reflex we have to pull whats warm - whether its something or someone - toward us, that feeling we get when we do that, that feeling of being safe in the world and ready for sleep, thats happiness.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Oct 2013 13:56:22 +0000
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