Be in Life

I started reading the book Happy by Ina K. Smith two weeks ago. I found an list of things that might make us happy:

1. Family, Friends, and social companionship
2. Helping others
3. Appreciating what you have and not feeling wistful about what you don't have
4. Making a difference in someone else's life
5. Pursuing a passion
6. Taking pride in one's work
7. Forgiving someone for an offense and moving on
8. Not trying to keep up with the joneses (which I searched the definition from the web, means: "referring to the comparison to one's neighbour as a benchmark for social caste or the accumulation of material goods")

Over the last weekend, I experienced one of the happiness factor above(Family companionship). My cousin Ting came over from LA to visit me, and I showed her around SF and Sac. I learned that my cousin and I had a lot of similarities. We both like to read psychology and subconscious books, and we get along with each other very well even though the last time we met was 8 years ago

Anyways, back to the happiness topic, what's better than spending some time with your family, when laughing together at the dinner tables and talking about the past, present and the future. To me, I am very grateful I can spend the past weekend with my cousin (-: