Little Happier: One of My Happiest Memories of My Mother

Happier with Gretchen Rubin

Gretchen Rubin / The Onward Project

Education, Health & Fitness, Self-improvement

4.7 • 13K Ratings

🗓️ 2 May 2022

⏱️ 4 minutes

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One of my happiest memories of my mother was seeing her wade through the snow to come pick me up at school. Get in touch: @gretchenrubin; @elizabethcraft; [email protected] Get in touch on Instagram: @GretchenRubin & @LizCraft Get the podcast show notes by email every week here: http://gretchenrubin.com/#newsletter Leave a voicemail message on: 774-277-9336 For information about advertisers and promo codes, go to happiercast.com/sponsors Want to be happier in 2022? Order Gretchen Rubin’s book The Happiness Project to see how she approached the question, “How can I be happier?” and start a Happiness Project of your own. Happier with Gretchen Rubin is part of ‘The Onward Project,’ a family of podcasts brought together by Gretchen Rubin—all about how to make your life better. Check out the other Onward Project podcasts—Do The Thing, Side Hustle School, Happier in Hollywood and Everything Happens with Kate Bowler. If you liked this episode, please subscribe, leave a review, and tell your friends! To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	I'm Gretchen Ribbon and this is a little happier.
0:04.4	The other day, I was contemplating as I often do,
0:08.3	an observation made by my spiritual master,
0:10.9	St. Teresa Luzia, in her extraordinary memoir, Story of a Soul.
0:16.7	When writing about being blamed for things
0:18.7	and scolded for little transgressions in her convent,
0:21.8	she noted, I noticed this,
0:24.7	when one performs her duty, never excusing herself,
0:28.1	no one knows it.
0:29.6	On the contrary, imperfections appear immediately.
0:34.6	And so true, right?
0:36.0	You do something perfectly and reliably, nobody notices,
0:39.4	you make a mistake, everyone complains.
0:43.1	This is perhaps particularly true of parrots,
0:45.6	which involves a myriad of tasks, small but pesky
0:49.0	and relentless that need to be done without fail.
0:52.6	A friend told me, I packed lunch for four years
0:55.2	and all I hear about to this day was the one time in first grade
0:59.0	when I forgot to put in my son's dessert.
1:01.9	It's true that parents don't get a gold star
1:04.0	for everything they do right,
1:05.4	but often just hear about when they mess up.
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