The Read Aunt Mzansi

Happy Places. Where is your Happy Place? What is a Happy Place? My (personal) dictionary says that, "A Happy Place, is any place, in the physical or spiritual, where you can go and fully experience peace." Is it going out? Being with friends? Your pARTner? Being in the company of your family? Lecture halls? Shopping? Curling up with a good book, and a cup of Rooibos Tea? Morning runs on dusty village roads? Travelling in a donkey cart? Having conversations with strangers? A weekend away at your Gran's? Whatever it is...it ought to give you peace. Utmost, pure peace. Peace still. It ought to speak to you, silently, and you have to understand the language. The Language of Peace. It's not always about the big things, or the things that seem big. Sometimes, most times even, it's the little things. It's the little things that mean the big things. For the big things to mean a whole lot, the little things have to matter, to you first before anyone else. It's then...