A Good Day Means More Than Things Going Right

I think the prompt understood the part that, definition of a good day can vary even to one person because I could see myself being happy about a day for all the reasons the prompt suggested and the list goes on. I think it has a lot to do with how I see each day now than I did in the past, when I just live and hope for another.

It's actually sensible to live a day while hoping for a better next day, even on a supposed good day. Because I've come to learn that good days come differently for me and sadly, not everyday as I would want it to be. After all, the life of a man is of few days but with many troubles as the Bible says. It's more reasons to appreciate good days.

Thanks to my new habit of jotting down a few things, especially highlights from my day, I've been able to see a lot of good in most of my days, even on a day I could have easily say was bad. It shows the power of writing because our brains tend to think more of bad happenings than the good ones, even when the good was more.

So if you ask me what my definition of a good day is, you'll see me reading through my personal daily journal which I did some days ago and I'm amazed by the number of amazing days I've had because I chose to highlight the good happenings over the bad ones. And it's not that I forgot the bad that happened, I just embraced it.

I think having that change of attitude towards bad happenings in my days have made me have more beautiful days that I'll count as good days, the days when even one little good came in when I least expected it and my day just felt brighter and better. I don't get it often but most of the time in my days, a little good of a day happens.

So yeah, I can define my day to be good when I was able to do everything I had set out to do, like setting small daily goals and actually achieving them. There is some kind of level of fulfillment that comes when I am able to do that and I always return the glory to God for helping me feel that way by giving me the strength to get it done.

I can also define my day to be good when things work out for me and not just me alone, when it works out for a family or close friend. I am growing the mindset of "a win for a loved one is a win for me too" including my own wins, whether big or small that I have recorded. Some good days for me may also be just "I am alive and well" and accepting that not all days will be good.