That Sudden Feel of Happiness

I came across a Red Note post today which was a video of a girl telling the camera how happy and satisfied she feels about her own life. She says that she has just moved to an apartment by the lake (she lives in Zhejiang) and it was raining cats and dogs outside, but she was home with her bubble tea that just arrived, with a plate of blueberries, watching SpongeBob, with her favorite music playing in the background on a speaker that she just bought and just arrived—and in that moment with all those things around her, she felt extremely happy and satisfied with her life. I totally relate to that video (which is why I gave it a like) because there were times in my life when I felt like my life is something to be grateful for and everything that is happening around me is something that I should be satisfied about. However, there are also times when I felt that my life is a mess and that things are not working out, and I just feel like I am not good enough. However, this girl, towards the end of this video, told the audience that we should always record those happy moments down because when we look back, we are going to see that life is always meaningful and there are always things we should be grateful for, even in our darkest times. 

This reminds me of a book I read before for a book analysis in Chinese class, and the moral of the story was basically to enjoy what is in the present and to not think too much about the future because it is only when we enjoy what is in front of us now that we get to see the hope in life and it is only when we see the hope in our lives, that we have the motivation and the drive to achieve something bigger.