Over the past couple of days I have written posts on how to be happy. Today I realized that one of the activities that I enjoy is solitude.

This does not mean I don’t like people. I love people but I need my time away from them. It is a time when I recharge my spirit and my mind.

I used to work for a boss who appeared to be uncomfortable with herself. She always had to be out drinking and with friends almost every evening. She showed me her social calendar one day a few weeks before Christmas and was bragging that almost every night she had something to go to. I looked at her calendar and with a look of horror on my face replied, “I would go crazy if I had that much to do.”

Some people are busy, busy, busy all of the time. That is okay. They may need to be busy.

I am not one of those people. I work my tail off during the day then I come home and in the evening I usually eat a bit of dinner, work out and then go right back to work on my novel or my blog. I know you are probably thinking that working all day long is being busy, busy, busy.

It isn’t though. I love every minute of working that I do; from nursing in home health, to writing my blog, to working on my novel.

Going out in the evening is a nice distraction but I do not want to do it every night. I have some major goals I want to accomplish and none of those goals will happen if I am out drinking and socializing every night.

I will only accomplish these goals if I work nonstop. It is funny that over the past year several of my guy friends have asked me what I do for fun. I reply, “I write.” They reply,”but that is your job, what do you do for fun?” I reply again,”I write.”

I truly enjoy every minute that I spend on this blog, even the dark posts where I was very deeply depressed were essential to my happiness. Just knowing that I could share my dark moments with an audience who seemed to care lightened that dark time in my life.

It has taken me over half a century to discover that my happiness is tied inexplicably to words. It has taken me less than a year to find great people such as you readers which I can share my happiness with.

I want to thank each one of you that have read my blog and especially thank all of my subscribers for putting up with me on a daily basis. Those of you who comment have touched my heart deeply. I have now exceeded 1.5 million hits and to think that my initial goal for the first year was 100,000 hits makes me just want to hug each and every one of you.

Since I can’t hug you I want to encourage you to look deep inside your heart and discover what makes you happy and then run after that with reckless abandon.

If you want to you can leave a comment to let me know what it is that you enjoy doing in life and how you find time to do that. I would love to hear from you.