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How to find happiness in simple things.

"Watching Sesame and her dry leaf makes me think of how I’d many times tried hard, spent money or years of my life, to get something I thought would make me happy.

When I finally got it and realized it didn’t make me happy, I wondered what was wrong with me.
I didn’t know that the things that really made me happy was simple, inexpensive, often-free.
I also see this in the women I work with in my coaching program.

It’s not the promotion, the designer shoes, the beach house, the perfect lover, or the sports car.
It’s the moment when you sip your tea and watch the rain, a tight hug, a smile with a stranger while you both wait for the elevator, the smell on the bark of an oak tree, mango, a tiny pot of succulent on your desk, reading a book you love…"

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https://milenanguyen.com/blog/2018/9/16/how-to-find-happiness-in-simple-things

🔸Where Is Happiness? 🔸

Rapha and I adopted Sesame on one Saturday night.
The following Sunday, we canceled all of our previous plans and called it the “Sesame Day”.

We hit the Pet Safari and bought what we thought would make her happy. I was over enthusiastic about the toys.

We took a cat tunnel, a fluffy little house with special feature, a cat tease stick with unique technology that was sure - by the marketer - to create “maximum fun, development, and engagement” for our Sesame.

I soon learned that the marketer must have made a mistake. Because she couldn’t care less.

The only thing she touched was the 1-dollar cat tease.
Until she discovered her ultimate toy: a dry leaf that fell down from a plant in the balcony.

She held it in her mouth, brought it in the house, dropped it on the floor near my feet, looked at me as if saying “Mom! Look at this magical thing I found!”

She then chewed on it, kicked it around, tucked it under the carpet, rolled over on her belly to wrestle with it.
And when she got tired of playing, she slept next to it.

Watching Sesame and her dry leaf makes me think of how I’d many times tried hard, spent money or years of my life, to get something I thought would make me happy.

When I finally got it and realized it didn’t make me happy, I wondered what was wrong with me.
I didn’t know that the things that really made me happy was simple, inexpensive, often-free.
I also see this in the women I work with in my coaching program.

It’s not the promotion, the designer shoes, the beach house, the perfect lover, or the sports car.
It’s the moment when you sip your tea and watch the rain, a tight hug, a smile with a stranger while you both wait for the elevator, the smell on the bark of an oak tree, mango, a tiny pot of succulent on your desk, reading a book you love…

And yet, this wasn’t clear to every women I worked with.

But when I get them to be still, to feel it in their heart, they always can tell me about their “dry leaf” - the simple things that make them smile.

The next step is to do a bit less of the things that they “think” will make them happy.
So they make a bit more space for the things that *really* make them happy.

(I bet you can’t imagine Sesame forces herself to run around the cat tunnel. Then complains that she has no time to play with her leaf.)

It is to gracefully say no to the people who gives you the “cat tunnel”.
Insist on taking your dry leaf with you.
And do that, a little bit each day, every single day of your life.

So now I have 2 questions for you, beautiful one.
- What’s your “dry leaf”?
- Can you give yourself 10 minutes today to “play” with it? (No. You don’t need to quit your job.)

If you can, that’s 1 baby step you take towards the life you want.

🌻And if you need someone to guide you, you may find me on that journey. Let me help you milenanguyen.com/coaching/

#stories_for_the_soul_by_milena

謝謝 Underon
之後會陸續在那邊有七張系列作品發表,還會附上感人小故事,想走悲情路線,
有興趣請關注他們喔~亲~

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there have seven series of works published, also have touching little story, want to go the route of sadness,
Interested please pay attention to them .

【POP OUT GALLERY─紐約浮世繪1】
在布萊恩公園裡，我看到了一個拖著行李箱的旅人。不知道他從何方來，只見他累倒在公園中間，脫了鞋子、蓋上外套、行李箱躺著，整個在草皮上放心地呼呼大睡。他身旁有穿著上班族套裝的人坐在長椅上工作，也有流浪漢坐在一旁發呆，大家都在這水泥叢林中間遙望那缺口。這草皮上的所有人，可以是當初還沒到紐約的每個我。

創作理念：
五個月前(2014.04)，我的生活處在一種迷網的心理困境，看了朋友給我的一個TED演講的影片，影片裡的Mag Jay說：「二十歲的人生，不能三十才開始。」當下給了我這個罹患「三十恐懼症」的人一個極大的心理衝擊恐。隨後，我開始想辦法解決這種恐懼，就在一個禮拜內，我訂了去紐約的機票。為什麼選擇紐約？其實到現在回想也不知道所以然，大概是因為在此之前的人生，對紐約沒有任何興趣與研究，所以紐約就剛好適合那時不抱任何期待的我。於是，我抱著轉換環境生活的心態，去了那個城市。

有個陌生人給我了紐約這個城市很好的註解。他說：”WOW, It's a difficult city!” 的確！紐約生活艱難，卻也是讓人可在其中激發創作靈感，其原因並非它太多元，而是所有的生活百態都是被擠壓出來的，靈感也是被爆出來的。在紐約生活的經驗是一體多面，過了一個街口遇到的前後落差，大概像坐了升降梯高低來回數次。

48天在紐約，我讓自己每天到不同的區域，雖然不是非常長的時間，但是足以達成這次旅行的目的：轉換環境生活。用這七張圖表達這城市給我的印象與心理變化，甚至最後幾張是用當時拍下的照片，結合插畫，來呈現我截至目前為止的人生與紐約行體驗，如同浮世繪般，鮮豔、多樣且豐富。

簡介
SAWADA CHEN，業餘插畫家。一天8小時是一個品牌設計師，另外16小時是一個帶著嘲諷的創作者。８小時的夢想：努力於非主流創作與商業行為結合。16小時的夢想：想靠精神吃飯，把喜歡的創作發揚光大，然後去他的資本主義。插畫風格沒有限制，內容慣用於黑色幽默或是帶著諷刺的表現手法。最近經營著希望帶有存在感的粉絲專頁，裡面會一直有新的創作在上面，可能還有一些謎一般的畫面，歡迎大家逛逛看看。

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【POP OUT GALLERY─New York Ukiyo-e】

One day, I saw a traveler dragging his suitcase in the Bryant Park, and I didn't know where he came from. He looked so tired that he just took off his shoes, took his coat as blanket, lying against the suitcase and fell asleep with ease. On the long bench besides him was a person with suit sitting and working there, and a homelessness was sitting nearby and seemed to be in a daze. Everyone looked up at the gap in this cement jungle, and I feel all of them could be me in the past, that is, before I came to NY.

Concept:

Five months ago, I was trapped in a perplexed feeling. As someone who was scared of turning 30, I was startled when I watched a TED talk by Mag Jay, in which she says "30 is not the new 20." I start dealing with my fear over 30 after that, and within one week, I booked a ticket to New York. Some might ask: why New York? Actually, I don't have the answer even until now. I wasn't particularly interested in NY before, and I had never done any research on it, neither. I didn't hold any expectation toward this city at that moment, and maybe that's exactly the reason that makes it a perfect place for me. With the intention to get out of my mood, I went there.

One remark about New York I heard from a stranger perfectly describes New York: "Wow, it's a difficult city!" Indeed, living in NY is difficult, but you'll be inspired by this city if you live there. The reason is not that it's a diversified city, but because it squeezes out various forms of life from human beings, and the inspirations thus come pouring out. The multiple facets of life here makes you feel like taking the elevator up and down for several times: the scenery you see at the entrance to the lane might be totally conflicting to what you see at the end of the lane.

I visited different areas of NY during my 48 days there. It's not a long stay, but it certainly allows me to achieve my goal: living in a different surroundings. In these 7 illustrations I present my impressions toward this city and also the change of my mood. The last few pictures combines the photos I took there and my illustration, representing my life until today and my experience in NY, which is as vivid and abundant as an Ukiyo-e

Artist
Sawada Chen is an amateur illustrator. She is a brand designer during the 8 working hours, and in the rest 16 hours she is an artist with sarcastic style. She dreams of combing boundless creativities and marketing concerns when she is working, while in the other 16 hours, she wishes to earn money by her creativities, create artworks she like and fight against capitalism. There is no boundary regarding her illustration style, but black humor and sarcastic narration are what she is good at. Recently, she starts running a fanpage, hoping that it will become noticable to others. New works will be uploaded there continually (sometimes mysterious pictures also) and waiting to be explored.

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