The Key To Happiness

I have found the key to happiness. Actually, I've suspected it all along, but this last week I've been feeling it with enough certainty to commit it to writing. Ready for it?

Hindsight.

Sorry if that came as a let down. Doesn't do much for the present does it?

I've noticed that the best times of my life occur simultaneously with the worst. And then those times are broken up by fugue states where my mind is focused on recalling the times before and the ones to come. Kind of a less memorable span of life where reflection is essential. But when it's all over, we have the ability to pick the lenses through which we wish to view our past. And which memories we're going to file at the front of our brain. And it gets better--we can adopt a more positive hindsight view. 

Our current experiences can change the way in which we view the past. I think this is one of the reasons I work with kids. It jogs the happier memories of my childhood, many I thought I'd permanently forgotten. I guess in a way it's life therapy.