Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill. (Matthieu Ricard.)
Today is Monday morning, a new week starts today and I decide to make the most out of it. It is a sunny day, my beloved are all in good health, I stretch out and fix breakfast. I am about to enter my office but then I decide to water my garden before it gets too hot, I pet my dogs and then share a coffee with a relative.
I start work with the usual routine, check mails for about an hour and when I was at this, I find a mail from a long-lost friend in Germany. I feel my heart flooded with this warm feeling I have whenever I hear from a friend I have not heard of for quite a while. How good to know she is doing fine, she lives in a caravan surrounded by the wind, flowers and birds. She is happy!!!!
After answering mails, I start the serious staff: prepare the sections of the Pronunciation course I am going to teach soon and delight at the idea of imagining the teacher trainees doing the different activities and sharing a good laugh together. I am happy !!!!!!!!!
As I grow older I have become more passionate about teaching, giving and sharing. I have been a teacher and a professor at different universities for a long time and now I am privileged to have become a teacher trainer and mentor.
I love exchanging experiences with other teachers and have become quite hooked to using web tools in my teaching.
I like plants, flowers and animals and am very concerned about our living planet. I am inspired by the Dalai Lama and am blessed for being happy almost all the time.
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