by the lake

If I am mindful of a day's success in the way I relate to people then I suppose it is good to record this success so that I may in the future replicate it. The difficulty is that the process of recording is cumbersome because it feels very much like having a concrete cylinder stamping my brain and limiting my view of myself when really, I'd rather be seeing the whole picture. So I choose not to record. I choose to reflect a day's happiness. Yes. To simply reflect a day's happiness is enough. This shall do. The mind is inclined to drift at night (and it is night) and 'success' is too harsh, too stiff a word to use on such a night when the mind is inclined to be drifty. Happiness was today. We walked many kilometres. We crossed many streets together. We reached the lake and fed the birds with the bread we had carried with us for the many kilometres we walked. Then we took the bus home and we concluded in our minds that it was a good trip. A piece of happiness added somewhere in the corner like a fine piece of armchair, a rocking chair, perhaps, or one of them wooden shelves for ornaments or little plants.