Deborah K. Heisz

I should have finished this book within a few hours. Instead, I spent about 7 days on it. I hated almost every section. It is supposed to be average day people doing things that made them happy. What I got instead was a bunch of rich people doing things that made them happy. When the first average person came about there was constant talk about how attractive they were. Then, of course, there were the kids doing things. Towards the end we did drop away from some of the rich people doing things but, by then I was done with reading the book.

I came in expecting people who had middle class or lower struggles. I wasn't expecting millionaires and billionaires and those buying half a million dollar houses and acres of land and traveling the world with no cares other than making sure they practiced mindfulness. The book just became annoying.

I'm still waiting for the college student with a billion dollars in loans and yet still finds time to work out or the cashier who managed to support a family and still save money for a vacation to Disneyland. The teacher who works at the public school and yet practices some inner peace stuff between school shootings and abused children.

You know...what the other half of us actually live with.… (meer)