“Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds you plant.”
Robert Louis Stevenson.

A couple of days ago, when I casually inquired of a friend of mine what she did for New Year’s Eve, I was expecting the usual, familiar replies.

What I wasn’t expecting was her answer. Cheerfully she said, “I checked the messages in my Happy Drawer.”

“Your Happy Drawer?” I asked, “What is that?”

She laughed and explained that at the beginning of last year, she resolved to keep a record for the entire year of all the things that made her happy – and the things that didn’t.

In preparation, she emptied out two drawers in her dresser and labelled them, ‘Happy’ and ‘Unhappy.’

Then, each day, when ever something happened or someone said or did something that pleased or displeased her, she recorded how she felt – and put the note in the appropriate drawer.

You get the idea. Faithfully, as the year progressed, she kept writing the notes. The days sped by, turning into into weeks; the weeks into months and before she knew it, it was New Year’s Eve all over again.

On the 31st. day of 2013, she opened the drawers and counted the notes in each drawer. To her amazement, she found that the number of notes in the Happy Drawer were twice the number in the Unhappy Drawer.

“Honestly,” she said, “I was surprised. I thought that the Unhappy Drawer would contain more notes than the Happy one. Seems the year was better than I remember it being.”

Hmmm…

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