obliged

I am happier at the moment that I have been for a very long time.

Some of the reasons are obvious: blue sky, sand, sun, clear water, incredible food, iced.coffee!, summer.skin, cliff top running, swimming with fish, seeing the horizon, squeezing My Lovely One, reading.reading.reading!, sunset wine, quiet.

And then there’s another reason – one that I’m not so sure about, that I’ve been playing with.

Maybe I am feeling happier because my obligations have dropped away: I am not paying bills, I am not making, breaking and keeping appointments, I am not waking to an alarm, I am not going to an office, I am not doing the grocery shopping and having to lug all the stuff into the kitchen and having to put it away before the ice-cream melts.

I know that real-life is about obligation. And some obligation can be good! But I wonder if there is a way to shift stuff so that the obligations I do have serve to enhance rather than diminish my happiness.