Over the past few days I've been feeling very lonely. Add a truckload of college work to the situation and voilà: unhappy Envy.

I was okay with being unhappy. I hadn't even noticed that I'd slipped into unhappiness until a worried classmate asked me if I was okay. That moment I realized I wasn't okay. I was far from okay. Something had to change. I just didn't have a clue how to change things for the better, The last time I'd felt like this was almost ten years ago. Back then my mom sat down on the couch with me each and every day. She wouldn't and I couldn't leave until I'd told about at least one thing, not matter how small, that had made me happy that day. We simply called it the Highlight of the Day.
I tried doing the old Highlight of the Day ritual on my own, because I didn't want my mom to get worried about me. It didn't work. I just brought myself down, thinking my Highlights were pathetic.
Then one day, last Friday to be exact, I found myself on the 100 Happy Days Challenge website. I don't know how or why I'd ended up there, but if felt good. I'd heard of the challenge before, I'd even wanted to try it if I'd ever find time. Finding time didn't seem so important now. Changing my mindset did. I signed up for the challenge the very next day. It felt like the best thing I could do for myself.

The challenge is simple: share a picture of something that made you happy. Do that every single day for 100 days in a row. The point of sharing the pictures isn't to make others jealous or show your awesome life off. The point is to take time to enjoy life each and every day. Sharing makes it easier to keep going, like I realized when I couldn't keep my old ritual up by myself.

I've started my challenge yesterday and decided to write a post about it too. I picked a pencil at random and out of all the fifty pencils I have on my desk (I have a bit of a pencil problem), this was the one I got.