By Farnoosh Brock

How does your ideal day unfold?

Actually, forget that. How does your ideal life unfold?

What color is it? What texture does it have? What fragrant smells and what delicious tastes does it diffuse? What music does it play? Where does it start and where does it end? What oceans and lands are you going to cross in your ideal life? What amazing things are you going to create with your hands and with your brilliant mind? What, if anything, are you just pining to do with your life?

In my 20s, I had started to ask these questions. I wondered if happiness could be in what we do everyday – even every hour (dare I even aim that high?) - and not just on vacations and weekends. I did not know exactly what I want; I’ll grant you that one. I knew only what I didn’t... More...