Helen Garner on Happiness- ‘It’s Taken Me 80 Years to Figure Out It’s Not a Tranquil, Sunlit Realm’⁠↗

So I’m not going to spend what’s left of my life hanging round waiting for it. I’m going to settle for small, random stabs of extreme interestingness – moments of intense awareness of the things I’m about to lose, and of gladness that they exist.