Thought for the week: Kate McNally at your pleasure

‘Someone once told me that there’s a difference between wanting to be happy and choosing to be happy.’

'As I look at the people in my life who are truly happy, it’s not the ones who have the most, or the ones who have the easiest lives.' | Photo: by Shaurya Sagar on Unsplash

I have just received an email cancelling plans for a lunch date which I had been looking forward to. When I look beyond my disappointment, I am reminded that we often don’t recognise the gifts that are given to us, because they don’t come in the form we want or expect. Sometimes they come in a different wrapping and so we leave them unopened and unacknowledged. For me, these cancelled plans give me the opportunity to spend the day with my husband reading and writing – a gift I hadn’t expected.

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