What makes you happy? List five things that truly make you happy. This is the assignment I was given by my counselor the last time I met with her. At the time I thought it would be an easy thing to do, but it hasn't turned out that way. All of us (or at least most of us) have things in our lives that we like: we like them to happen to us, or we like to do them, or we like it that they happen, but what is at the core of our happiness?
I haven't finished my assignment yet because, as a dissociative psychotic, I don't feel much of anything most of the time, and the things I do feel emotions about aren't necessarily real, and don't necessarily make sense, at least not to most people, and this assignment--write down five things that make you happy--made me stop and think: what makes me happy? Not the superficial "happiness" of the simple things we like to do, but the core of my happiness; that special something that makes all right with the world, and makes me look forward to each day and what that day might hold. Do I even have a core happiness? Does anyone else? What do you think?