Introduction

My very first intention was to write a diary…a physical one..but then I changed my mind.  Last year (2010) was not the best year of my life, it had its struggles .. a bit more than anticipated, and I learned a lot from it..also, I realized, that I complain a lot..that inspired me to start writing the Book of Mirth…firstly I just wanted to write it to myself, my aim was to make a note for every day, and every note had to contain at least one miracle of life.  It could be a very small one, but it had to be something that made me smile, this is how I wanted to “wake myself up” in order to realize the happy moments too, instead of focusing too much on the negative things.  Therefore the idea of a kind of “joy diary” was born.  But then, a friend of mine said something interesting, she told me that if you have goals/dreams and you keep them within yourself, they might drive you to achieve them, but if you are the type, who is not so committed it is also easy to forget them, but! If you share your goals with your friends for example, then you are in a way more “obliged” not to let them go…I know it sounds a bit strange from the point of view, that if they are really important goals, you’d go for them anyway, but still it can serve as a small push down the road.  So this is how this blog was born…instead of a diary, kept only for myself, I decided to make it a blog, more or less public – more or less, because my friends will know about it, and then if someone else is also interested, he/she can get a little glimpse of my joyous moments too…but still…I think it will be more pleasant to read for the people who actually know me.  Yet, to prove my intention of not excluding anyone who is interested, the main language is going to be English…it might happen that some notes will be written in Hungarian, my native language, that will be due to my actual mood..however, I’ll try to concentrate on writing the majority of the book in English (maybe my American friends will time to time have the taste to read a bit too ) After such a lengthy prologue, let’s start