How I Became Happy

Sometimes a few bright words are enough to turn your whole dull life upside down. It’s as if you’ve been sleeping all along with your eyes on a wall—then you blink, and there’s a little house by the sea with a view of a real man. That’s exactly what happened to me as soon as I got my hands on a magical book. At the right time, and in the right heart. But how could my heart possibly understand how something like this could happen—and how to live with it? The more I tried to forgive people—both the very close ones and those not so close— the more I became convinced that it’s impossible. It’s impossible to forgive this, as I thought—until that very meeting.