Happiness for Beginners

by Katherine Center

I had finally come to understand that not getting what you want is actually the trick to it all. Because not getting what you want forces you to appreciate what you already have. I finally got that if you were always in a state of longing you could never truly get satisfied,

Maybe I would change my life, and maybe I would get better at love, and maybe by the time the next person came along, I’d finally get it right at last. But I didn’t want the next person. I just wanted Jake.