All our lives we are living in anticipation of "good days". Sometimes we think, once our goal is accomplished, the day will be the best day of our life. There are days when we are waiting for some good news, to end our hard time or simply just to go on to the next day. But have we stopped to think what a "Good Day" actually is? Is it a day when we complete all of our pending work? Or it is a day when something very good happens in our life? For me a "Good Day" can be anything and everything. Maybe, because it is not possible to measure the "Good Day" against a single yardstick and that's its beauty.

Is a day filled with success the only kind of good day?

A " good day" for some is a day they do everything on their list. The person gets up early in the morning and does some physical activity, finishes work or some studies, gains a new piece of information, takes a step closer to their goals, and doing these things gives us a different feeling of contentment. When you think back at how you spent the day and before you go to sleep you are happy to realize that you haven't killed time, in fact, you've used some of it to make your life a little bit better.

But do we need to make each day end up like that? I don't think so. Perhaps sometimes we just can't accomplish the things on our to-do list, sometimes sleep overtakes us, and sometimes, we get hit by an unforeseen task, and sometimes, we find ourselves too much at the mercy of our circumstances. If we start to determine every day by our effectiveness, we may end up missing out on many of our life experiences. There are likely days when we don't do much, but we still felt we had a good day. Isn't that right?

Sometimes, peace of mind is the greatest success.

The most important piece of a good day in my opinion is tranquility. We spend our lives working hard for different things, and during this time we forget about peace of mind. On occasion a good day can be a stress free day, no fussing or bad news, a day in which we have found a moment for ourselves. A calm morning, a meal we love, a few pages of an interesting book, a good game or a movie we all enjoy and the realization at the end of the day that everything went fine.

Let us also remember that not everyone receives happiness in a grand way. An unexpected phone call from a friend, a good moment with family, the resolution of a problem that has persisted for a long time, or even a good change in the weather can turn any day into a good day. Maybe the problem is that while we keep waiting for a great happiness, we ignore the small ones, although life is, in fact, mostly made up of small moments.

Is it enough just to be alive and healthy?

There is another point to this that we so often forget. We want so much in our lives, but fail to realize that we already have so much. Our health, family, friends, food, a home, the ability to see another day, these are all things we tend to become unappreciative of. We fail to realize that others don't have these in their lives. Some are happy with just the chance to be with a loved one for a day and others, it is a blessing just to get through the day without pain or suffering.

That being said, we don't have to stop having dreams. Instead, I think that we should have our dreams, while at the same time be thankful for the blessings that we already have. As we always crave for what we do not have, we may find no time to appreciate many things that we already have, let alone things that we would like to have. Sometimes, even an ordinary day is very precious, but it takes us so long to realize that.

So, what is a good day for me?

For me, if I can have "a good day"-i.e. Being able to have my work, and have a little time to enjoy my greatest interests, and close a day with a calm mind. It does not mean that everything has to go according to plan, or that I should reach some great achievement. If I can get to read a few pages, run a little, see a good film, play one of my video games, and get through all that with nothing that causes me real hardship, that constitutes for me a good day. And sometimes, watching a comedy with loved ones is enough to live a great day.

But for me, the way I define a "good day" might also change over the years. A "good day" for me today might be totally different in the future when my priorities change, for our needs and where we find happiness keep changing throughout the different phases of life. Maybe this is why I find it not quite right to compare someone else's "good day" with my own life, for she has her own story, her own problems, her own standards of happiness.

In the end, I think a good day is not a day where everything goes perfectly. A good day is a day where I just did my best; a good day might also be a day where I just got a moment of peace; a good day may also be just another day where I had another day of life. We do not need to make every single day special because more often than not, it is just the ordinary days that turn out to be our most beautiful memories.

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