Naomi, from Seven Cherubs is running her "Happy Days in May" project. It's very simple to her happiness project from last year. The premise is simple.
Keep a note, each day of May of something that made you happy. Then, at the end of the month, we all link up and share. It can be in a notebook, on your phone, or a blog post that you publish at the end of the month (that's how I'll do it. I'll start a draft and add to it each day). So far, there are about 40 people doing it. Why don't you join in?
I wasn't sure, but I realised that of all of the months of the year, this is the month I need this. This is the month I need to make myself find the good and the happy and the sunshine. It's a rough month for me. It's the anniversary of my mother's death. But it's so much more than that. The build up, the week or two before hand, there are so many memories, heartbreaking memories. The 5 days before, every year - flashbacks and nightmares. I hate May with a passion.
So this May, I'm going to pro-actively try to survive that first half by stealing some happiness. I will mourn, I will miss her, as I do every day. But I will be as happy as I can.
She'd have wanted that.
