Melting into Happiness
I got a happiness reminder from the snow on this first full day of winter. It was another hundred-mile-an-hour day at work and when I walked from the office, I was carrying a lot of tension from the day’s unrelenting demands.
But as I rounded the corner to the parking lot, a little patch of melting snow on the rail fence that lines the clinic’s grounds caught my eye. Yesterday it covered the rails completely, making smooth, rounded shapes of their usual angles. But as it surrendered itself to the relative warmth, after the weekend’s storm, the snow was quickly melting away.
“That’s what letting go is like,” I thought to myself. “It’s like melting.”
Like snow in the sun’s warmth, like a candy cane on your tongue, or ice cream on a summer day, it’s just a simple surrender. Who needs the brittleness of tension knotting up their necks, their backs, their shoulders! Let the warmth in; let it dissolve.
Dunk yourself in the warmth of kindnesses given and received, of the beauty of the day and of the rolling seasons. Slow things down. Feel the warmth of a smile. Feel the satisfaction of work well done. Let happiness churn up some warm joy and bubble the tension away.
Melt into the moment, with all its wonder and peace. Melt into the simple gladness of being.
You might also like...
Posted in 
Very poetic! However I think,
happiness is still a tricky word. I had a shot at trying to define it
in a more “scientific” or “objective” way, despite it being a
subjective feeeling: What is happiness?
I would love to hear your thoughts! Thank you, Nick
It’s like love, Nick. Some things are just too deep to be measured.
BUT I read your valiant efforts to capture it with a definition. Closest I’ve seen anybody come to containing it in algorhythms is Manfred Clynes. Might want to see if you can find a copy of his book on Sentics. Very interesting work.