The Mercury / Friday
What brings you joy?
It doesn’t take much to please me:
• It brings me inordinate joy, even quizzical joy, to find a lost sock and to reunite it with its mate.
• It’s a shot of pure joy when either of my sons asks me how I’m doing or how my day is going.
• I really like it when friends, whom I introduce to each other, end up doing something wonderful together.
• Being in a position to send a little cash to another country to buy a third-world child’s soccer boots and a soccer kit and knowing the child will be part of a team delivers a joy I can hardly begin to describe.
• Having sufficient excess income to be able to tip well knowing the server is a single mother working several jobs to make ends meet is thrilling to me.
• Meeting the sons and daughters of couples whose wedding I performed and feeling somehow and oddly connected to their very existence makes me really happy, especially when they are unaware of the connection.
• It’s a huge source of joy to me when I see my sons being enjoyed by their friends and embraced by a community and valued by people I don’t even know.
Please, let me know some of yours.
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