Recognising Joy

How I learned to recognise moments of happiness and not ruin them by holding on too tight

Image: a man buries a young girl’s legs in the sand on a beautiful beach

Many years ago I watched a strange and beautiful Japanese movie ‘After Life’ in which the characters were asked to choose one moment from their lives, one memory, that they could choose to relive forever after their death. Their ‘afterlife’ would consist of just this one crystalline…