The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun, is another memoir / project along the lines of Eat, Pray, Love and Julie and Julia where one bored and disgruntled woman decides to do something extraordinary during the course of a year.
Being a formerly disgruntled woman myself, I was once again intrigued by the premises and dove into Gretchen Robin’s book full of hope and anticipation. It’s not particularly enlightening literature but by focusing on small aspects such as exercize, organize, enjoy the now, start a collection, take time for one another, give something up and learn something new, Rubin was able to add a little more satisfaction to her day to day routine.
Every month she tackles a new subject (vitality, work, mindfulness,…) but it’s all pretty basic and simple stuff that we easily take for granted, making her suggestions easy to follow and almost guaranteeing you some form of success. Rubin, a lawyer turned writer, uses quotes from well known philosophers and authors as well as her own life experiences to prove her point being that it’s ( how shocking) the little things that matter most and that thus everyone can achieve some form of happiness by focusing on them.
The most important lesson to be learned however, is to just be you. Sounds easy, right? The Happiness Project is an interesting, though not particularly groundbreaking book that will probably be turned into a movie sometime in the distant future.
And don’t forget "Whoever is happy will make others happy, too." Mark Twain.
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