100 Days Challenge

Someone I know is doing this 100 days challenge, where she has to keep on being happy for 100 days. Instead of going "gaaaaay" like I normally do when I hear of such things, I actually thought this one was quite cool. I actually want to do something like that- maybe not 100 days happy, because I don't think I'm physically capable of achieving that. I kind of want to do it over my blog but I don't know if I have enough dedication to blog continuously for 100 days. I had a look at my blogging record the other day, and realized 2013 has been a terrible year for blogging- though I was soooo surprised that I almost managed 1 post a day through 2012. That's just like...crazy. Also it makes me sad to think that if I'd been writing a novel, I'd be close to finishing by now.

Gonna side track a little now- but I've always wanted to write my own novel. I come up with such great ideas, but I never actually bother fleshing out my story. At some point I realize writing novels require commitment and actually...well, writing. I do have a place where I keep the beginnings of all my stories though, so if I get bored enough one day I will write it all out. Though all my great ideas become invariably embarrassing after some time, so maybe not.

Anyway- 100 days challenge. I kind of want to do one. 100 days of blogging sounds like the most realistic kind of challenge right now- even if I'm travelling or something I can blog a paragraph or two on my phone. Except a part of me REALLY, like, REALLY want to do the 100 days of being happy thing. It's not like I have to be happy for the whole day, I just need to find one thing that day which made me happy. It could be a cure to my pessimism- and I don't mind if nothing good happens all day- but if I TRY to find something "happy" to blog about on that day, at least I'd learn to appreciate the less-shitty things in life.

So uh, I think doing something- or at least trying to- is probably better than saying you want to do something without actually doing it. Here goes then. This is going to be day #1 of me finding something happy in my day: the best thing that happened today is when I saw my friend who I thought I'd lost all contact with, due to a mysterious disappearance. As I sat on a bench, musing to my room mate that you only appreciate someone when you can't see them any more, she called out, "is that who I think it is?"

And yeah sure enough there was that friend of mine who had mysteriously disappeared, who I thought I had lost all contact with. The sight of him walking towards me, looking much the same as he did 3 months ago, was just one of the most beautiful things I've ever seen. Yeah, I'm a massive romanticist- but I felt quite overwhelmed just seeing him, okay? A part of my thought he had died or something- or that he'd just disappeared without word or warning, and I'd probably never see him again. It was like that moment in Cloud Atlas where Frobisher was sitting alone, watching sunrise, and he sees Sixsmith. Well I'm not saying I'm like Frobisher and what happened didn't even come close to tearing my heart into a million pieces like Cloud Atlas did, but that was the kind of feeling.

And there you go. The start of my 100 days challenge- day 1: something happened in my life that made me legitimately happy, even if I am still tired and bored and life still drags on.