How to be Happy, Instead of a Garbage Collector

     In our quest to continue building up our marriage I was given a book, "Being Happy! A Handbook to Greater Confidence & Security" by Andrew Matthews.

     It is full of "no-brainer" yet very useful nuggets of how to work towards being a generally happy person.

My favorite nugget so far though is this:

"...most people remember compliments for a few minutes and insults for years. They become garbage collectors, carrying around trash that was thrown at them twenty years ago." 

-Andrew Matthews, "Being Happy! A Handbook to Greater Confidence & Security"

This is so true! And I have been guilty of this in my childhood, in social settings, and sometimes in my marriage. Why do we do this?

"How often do we ignore the compliments that are paid to us yet dwell on unkind words for weeks afterwards?"

With that in mind, let's focus on giving and receiving compliments instead.

"We don't have to be perfect to accept a compliment with a graceful thank you"