What Makes You Happy?: ASEAN Hive Community Challenge #150

I believe that being alive and able to do a lot of big or small things are all enough reasons to be happy. Some would be happy to have a vault of currencies, fame, or a grand mansion, who wouldn’t be anyway? The list could go on endless for it varies among each of us. As I have come across this challenge, it hits me, and I asked myself the same question. I have this impression that I am already happy of who I am now and for what I have. It got me thinking if what I have is enough to come up with a narrative to join the said challenge. First, I would like to thank @asean.hive for this activity for it leads me to a one brilliant thing that I have realized. I realized that I am already happy, and the question I asked for myself is, “what triggers me to become happier?” It is just so perfect that it gives me the enthusiasm to participate in the challenge. Making it before the countdown ends.

Among the many Hivers joining the challenge, family is the most rated factor to be happy. It also goes the same with me. Who wouldn't be happy to have a family to love, serve, and enjoy life with, right? Just like other moms, a healthy family is a fountain of joy and gratitude. Seeing them doing their best for their craft is a daily reason for a cheerful heart.

To a mom like me with growing teens, nothing elates us best but to witness our kids passionately accomplish a life's milestone with persistence and hard work, be it in academics, sports, modelling pursuit, social intelligence, self-reliance, etc. As much as these give happiness to our kids, we moms have double joy witnessing them unfold right before our very own eyes.

Blessed are the families who enjoy simple home-cooked meals shared on the table. Being the light of my own home, brightness will expand by serving the family food that meets the required nutrition. Simple as the food may be but each menu has been carefully handled from marketing to cooking seasoned with an overflowing love. And much food to add as a bonus, is the dessert we all deserve once in a while to savor the sweetness of life in its bittersweet challenge in their time to time occurence.

It has been said that no man is an island. Do you believe in that? I do. Circle of friends and network are designed to measure how successful we are in lives. To enjoy the hallmark of our achievements, friends are also crucial in embracing them aside from our family. Our network could tell us the success in establishing inter-personal relationships as we go on reaching our goals. Thus, friends as the very first factor in socialization, can contribute a lot to our mental health. It's just that we need to choose our friends wisely, if we are standing on same ground, looking up for the same horizon, and an unannounced warrior with us when we fight our own silent battles. May you be wrapped this kind of friends too.😇😍

The best thing about travel is that we feel fresh and renewed as we go back home. "A mother's job is never done from sunrise to sundown," they say. Yet, I have proven it right too, based from my very own first-hand experience. Laundry basket is quickly filled (I wish it's the same with our bank accounts😂); kitchen sink will only be speck and span for a short while; meal time is up again; and the list goes on. Therefore, travel is undeniably good for my mental health and well-being. To see the world and meet new people is a treasure glittering in its own vault. And back home, an invigorated mom is happier to perform home management again, gladly and gently nurturing the ones she loves in her warm home.

Before reaching to the last dot of this blog, what are your happier triggers too? I would love to read them in the comments below. Thank you for swinging by and being with me until the end of this post. It truly matters to me. See you again in my next blog.