I Took A Picture Of Something That Made Me Happy Every Day For 100 Days. Here’s What I Learned.
Why look far and wide for what ultimately comes from within?
I jumped on a trending hashtag: 100happydays.
The premise was to share a photo on Instagram of whatever made you happy for 100 days in a row. The key guideline was that:
“It is not a happiness competition or a showing off contest. If you try to please / make others jealous via your pictures — you lose without even starting. Same goes for cheating.”
Sharing the photos publicly held me accountable, enabled me to witness people’s journeys alongside my own, and served as a way to encourage each other collectively through the process.
My goal was to practice gratitude, identify what made me smile, create memories, start a new project at the start of the calendar year, and battle the winter blues.
I was in the midst of my fourth Chicago winter in the last year of college, and from past experience, winter presented the most mental health challenges.
As part of this practice, I captured anything that made me feel uplifted, motivated, inspired, grateful, appreciative, satisfied, or accomplished.
