One of the first things you should do is find your happy place. Where is that one place, or maybe two places, where you feel the most joy and the most peace? Your happy place could even be a person, someone who calms you just by being in the same room. Where you can go to center yourself and reflect on what has set you off balance.
For me it is our pool. I actually picked my apartment because I have always loved the pool. I would drive by it and it would just call to me. Others are concerned about having a laundry set up in the apartment, me I would rather tromp up and down a million stairs to have free access to the pool all summer.
I love being outside and anything in and on the water. Canoeing, boating, fishing, swimming I love them all. Something about being out there forces me to slow down and to confront everything in my life. The quite time, the stillness in the air, the view of the clouds and the gentle lap of the water centers me like nothing else.
I am saddened when the pool closes each September. I then switch to my balcony and try to spend as much time as possible outside walking and hiking. But it is not really the same. Nothing brings me as much peace as a day around the water.
Where is your happy place?
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