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Mabsoot

Are you a mabsoot?  The world will most probably light up if you are. What makes you a mabsoot? This blue sky holiday on a sunflower field made me go, "and I think to myself what a wonderful world!"  I was quite a mabsoot. The Dalai Lama says "happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions." I thought I would make a little experiment; see what would an action mean to me so off I shopped in Chatuchak, a huge weekend market known to bring seasoned shoppers to their knees.  I came home with sore feet, but thinking the Dalai Lama was right. What really made me a mabsoot after shopping like a madwoman was my vintage loot.  It makes my heart dance as merrily as it did when I browsed the graveyard at St. Mary's church in the shadow of Scarborough Castle and found this - “People are just as happy as they make up their minds to be.” That's Abraham Lincoln. And I tend to agree with him. Making up your mind to be happy is easy, and not as costly