Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast that gives you ideas for how to make your life

happier.

This week we'll talk about the happiness of reviving a dormant friendship and highlight

some great yearbook quotations chosen by listeners.

I'm Gretchen Rubin, a writer whose studies happiness, good habits in human nature.

I'm in New York City and with me is my sister Elizabeth Kraft.

It always makes me happy to talk to you Elizabeth.

That's me Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in LA and Gretchen you make me

happier even when I don't want you to.

With your happiness bullying.

And Gretchen you know what it's almost September and you know what that always makes me think

of your book happier at home.

Oh right yes.

Yes but because in happier at home I decided that I was going to do sort of another happiness

project type thing where I would spend a school year from September to May because I

feel like in a way that's the way I think of a year that the new year doesn't start in

January it starts in September.

Totally.

Yeah and so if you're a person who's interested in how to be happier at home with stuff like

possessions, time, relationships, neighborhood, for example, people often sort of.

I think that possessions should play no role in their happiness.

You know they should get rid of everything and stuff isn't important.

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