Reasons to be happy

It's a bit of an odd time to be feeling very happy. There are lots of scenarios you might imagine having the starring role in as Happily Content Person, including (but not limited to):

• winning the Lottery
• coming across the answer to world peace
• putting your hand into an old coat pocket and finding €10 you didn't know was there

From an objective viewpoint, I not only don't qualify for the above, but I also:

• have a not-so-interesting job, and no immediate prospects of anything better
• have a rather complicated family life, which recently got a bit worse
• am not jetting around the world on one young leadership thing, and have just blown an interview for yet another
• recently broke up with my boyfriend because he didn't love me
• am about to turn 22 and haven't, as yet, discovered the answer to world peace
• my beautiful, brilliant, marathon-swinning granny has just found out she has cancer

And yet I feel great. What I mean is that some of these things are sad things, but I feel good about the world. I can be really happy about my love for my granny, even as I am heartbroken that she is afraid and hurting.

All the old questions about Who I Am and Where Am I Going are still there, but for some reason these are very good questions to be asking.

This is curious alright.