Sadness and pain live close to happiness, because to enjoy the significance of a joyful moment is to know that it will soon be gone
In a series of short essays, writers consider what happiness means to them now, after the reckoning of the past few years
It’s a simple question, something you’d ask on a first date perhaps. Yet I don’t think I’ve asked that question of myself before. I’d asked what I need to do in the moment, to feel better, to give back, to be productive, but never what would make me happy in the grand arc.
Me, I was looking into the undergrowth and found two cèpes that I carried home in the palm of my hand. I collected warm eggs from the straw bed of Veronica and the Heathers, kale stems from the remaining garden, and made a breakfast for two. I remember feeling genuinely happy that the food was gifted from its natural state.
When I’m connecting like this to nature’s pace, I can better reckon with the fact that things come and go and take time. When I’m in tune with the season I feel relieved by the truth that our lives can be abruptly, painfully short – and it connects me to my family, to those whose lives were cut short, to the process that gave my grandparents joy – fishing and growing food, to what gave my ancestors purpose. It connects me all the way back.
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