I am reading a very good book on the subject of happiness called "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin. It is a very good read thus far so in honor of such a good book, I created my own personal list of 20 simple reasons that I enjoy living in India (in no particular order)...
1) My hour long uninterrupted yoga practice every day.
2) How blue the sky looks on a clear day during monsoon season.
3) The ability to travel...a lot.
4)The fact that I have never 'messed my pants' while living here despite the fact that every other expat I know has done this disgusting thing due to the plethora of stomach bugs we get.
5) The produce is so fresh and cheap. For example, a huge bag of potatoes is about 30 rupees or $.60.
6) My love of tea! For iced tea I love passion fruit or peach and hot...chai masala.
7) My awesome book club. Loud, funny ladies that drink wine together over a good book.
8) Our weekly Sunday tradition. My husband has his guitar lesson in the afternoon while I kill time shopping at my favorite clothing store, Anokhi, or drinking tea and reading at a local cafe.
9) How silent the world is when I float on my back in our pool in the backyard.
10) How easy it is to make friends with people from all over the world who have moved to India. I think that there are a lot of new people here that are a little lonely. No walls are up so the people are lovely!
11) Caftans. Really!!! :) I live in them.
12) Poker night with friends and the silly black trophy the winner gets to keep that is just a free mug I got from some trip that has the letter 'U' on it. When someone wins we all say, "U, U, U," while we appreciatively point our finger at them.
13) The great jewelry store I love in New Delhi with the beautiful old wooden front doors. Nice things await inside those doors.
14) Painting just for me. No one else's work hangs on my walls in this house.
15) Freedom from worry in regards to theft. Nothing in my house in India is really mine, except the paintings and clothes and those are replaceable. Nice feeling to never worry about that stuff disappearing.
16) Being a local on the week days and a tourist on the weekends.
17) Paneer Tikka. Spicy and yummy!
18) The way my dog looks down on me while I am lying on the floor in corpse pose at the end of my yoga practice. Her ears flop down in her face as she searches my face trying to figure out why I am on the floor laying like that. It is so funny and cute.
19) Having enough free time to read more books that I ever have before in my life.
20) My extremely inexpensive phone bill each month...like 200 rupees or $4. Wow!!!
I challenge you to name the top 20 things you love about your life wherever it is that you live.
1) My hour long uninterrupted yoga practice every day.
2) How blue the sky looks on a clear day during monsoon season.
3) The ability to travel...a lot.
4)The fact that I have never 'messed my pants' while living here despite the fact that every other expat I know has done this disgusting thing due to the plethora of stomach bugs we get.
5) The produce is so fresh and cheap. For example, a huge bag of potatoes is about 30 rupees or $.60.
6) My love of tea! For iced tea I love passion fruit or peach and hot...chai masala.
7) My awesome book club. Loud, funny ladies that drink wine together over a good book.
8) Our weekly Sunday tradition. My husband has his guitar lesson in the afternoon while I kill time shopping at my favorite clothing store, Anokhi, or drinking tea and reading at a local cafe.
9) How silent the world is when I float on my back in our pool in the backyard.
10) How easy it is to make friends with people from all over the world who have moved to India. I think that there are a lot of new people here that are a little lonely. No walls are up so the people are lovely!
11) Caftans. Really!!! :) I live in them.
12) Poker night with friends and the silly black trophy the winner gets to keep that is just a free mug I got from some trip that has the letter 'U' on it. When someone wins we all say, "U, U, U," while we appreciatively point our finger at them.
13) The great jewelry store I love in New Delhi with the beautiful old wooden front doors. Nice things await inside those doors.
14) Painting just for me. No one else's work hangs on my walls in this house.
15) Freedom from worry in regards to theft. Nothing in my house in India is really mine, except the paintings and clothes and those are replaceable. Nice feeling to never worry about that stuff disappearing.
16) Being a local on the week days and a tourist on the weekends.
17) Paneer Tikka. Spicy and yummy!
18) The way my dog looks down on me while I am lying on the floor in corpse pose at the end of my yoga practice. Her ears flop down in her face as she searches my face trying to figure out why I am on the floor laying like that. It is so funny and cute.
19) Having enough free time to read more books that I ever have before in my life.
20) My extremely inexpensive phone bill each month...like 200 rupees or $4. Wow!!!
I challenge you to name the top 20 things you love about your life wherever it is that you live.
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