Remember to notice when life is nice, when life it good. It’s important.
Kurt Vonnegut with some lovely advice:
I’ve included my tribute to my Uncle Alex, my brother’s kids brother who was a graduate of salesman, a wise man, and just and insurance salesman in Indianapolis. He was childless.
What Uncle Alex found objectionable about so many human beings is that they so seldom noticed when they were happy. And so we would be sitting under an apple tree for instance on a July afternoon drinking lemonade, you know talking about this and that and practically buzzing like honey bees… And Uncle Alex would stop everything and say ‘ Wait a minute. Stop. If this isn’t nice I don’t know what is’
And so he would do that again and again and it was very good advice and I’ve taken it in and I hope that you will take up this habit of noticing when things are really awfully nice and say: If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is
— Kurt Vonnegut