Yup - Buddhist basics - all suffering comes from desire.
I want to understand and work towards living this type of life.
D17 is happy and her advice to me is don't think about it (the bad stuff) and be grateful. We've been in this icky rental house for 7 months now. She lost her allowance, we can't eat out, go to the movies, her friends all dumped her, she lost her pets and her sister. Could our lives get any sadder and yet she found things to be grateful for.
I'm a good cook so after we moved I needed to find new things to make. New place, new routine. D17 told me that the highlight of her day was dinner. She'd spend all day at school wondering what delicious meal I was going to prepare that evening. Seriously??? I think I get it now.
