Happy & Healthy
15 FREE HAPPY MOMENTS
For two years, I lost my favorite dress. It gave me a stomach ache. Did I lend it out and not get it back? Forgot to pick it up from the dry cleaner? Accidentally ended up in Max's bag? I had already turned the house upside down ten times, but couldn't find my favorite dress. Until my mother opened her closet full of ‘sewing projects’... You feel it: there lay the poor thing. For two years, with a loose hem, lonely in a basket. You can imagine how happy I was.
Little happy moments that just suddenly appear, without you expecting them and without costing you a single euro.
On a hysterically busy Saturday afternoon on the Prinsengracht, while it's raining cats and dogs, still finding that one parking spot.
Finding out in the evening that your boyfriend did have time in the morning to make a clean bed. Crisp white sheets that smell like your favorite Robijn. Earlier you read here why May loves to change her bed..
After a day full of appointments, deadlines, and craziness, realizing at home that you also have a dinner appointment with that one friend you haven't seen in months. Very nice of course, but just then you have no energy left for it. While you're pulling yourself together, a relieving message appears on your screen. Friend is unavailable. *plops on the couch*
When you arrive at the office soaking wet and your steaming cup of ginger tea is already waiting for you on your desk. Those colleagues I have. The best.
When you know you're going to be late for work, find out outside that it has frozen, and see that your neighbor has also scraped your windows.
Finding a stray gift card in your wallet that exactly covers the price of that pot of Chanel.
When that one blouse is just dry in time for your drinks at six o'clock.
Coming home after a long workday and your favorite meal is on the table.
The grocery boy in the American supermarket who not only packs your cart but also brings your groceries to your car. I would love to have them ride home with me too.
Finding a twenty-dollar bill deep in an inner pocket of the winter coat you take down from the attic after a year.
Having an appointment at the hairdresser and finding out that your girlfriend is sitting a chair away. Now that's multitasking.
Your boyfriend who puts a cup of coffee next to your bed in the morning while your eyes are still closed (I had such a lottery ticket).
Just managing to bike over the bridge before it opens (this happens to me at least once a week).
Being late for the train, but hearing that it has a delay, so you're still on time.
When you walk into your favorite restaurant at five to eight on Saturday evening and coincidentally, a table just cancels.
And as I type this, a message appears on my phone. Favorite boyfriend from Maastricht is in the car on his way to Amsterdam to grab a coffee. Just like that...
I am a happy person.
