If you ask yourself ‘What’s the best thing that happened…

If you ask yourself ‘What’s the best thing that happened today?’ it actually forces a certain kind of cheerful retrospection…

Just as you need a chart of future events, you need a habit of past optimism. I asked myself that question today — and yeah, it helped. It wasn’t anything big. Just a moment: the cashier at the corner store smiled like she meant it. The breeze hit perfect while I was walking home. A track I forgot I loved shuffled back into my headphones like an old friend saying “yo.”

That was enough. That was the best thing. I remembered how to notice.