Hello and welcome to Happier, a podcast about building happier habits into your daily

life.

This week we'll talk about why you should have something to look forward to and how a

simple bowl can add to your happiness.

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

I'm in New York City and with me is Elizabeth Kraft, my sister, my guru, and sometimes my

guinea pig.

That's me, Elizabeth Kraft, a TV writer and producer living in Los Angeles and Gretchen being

the subject of your happiness experiment has definitely improved my life.

So thank you.

Excellent.

Now, we in episode 79 talked about reviving adormant friendship and we've gotten a lot

of great responses from people who actually were inspired to go revive adormant friendship.

And we wanted to read one of them.

This is from Miriam.

She says, I tried reviving adormant friendship and got such a warm response that I am too

excited and happy to go to sleep.

So now I am violating two of your other happiness recommendations by staying up way too late

and emailing before we reviving the friendship involved tracking her down through Google and

emailing her work.

The email subject was neighbor from heaven.

We live next door when our children were very small, sharing laughter, childhood magic,

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