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2022: The Year I Became Happy Beyond My Wildest Dreams

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Amy Sterling Casil
6 min readDec 25, 2022

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I think I could have died last night.

The angel of Death did visit on Christmas Eve as a reminder of bad times past. But they did not stay. Here I am, telling about how I became as happy as I could have ever imagined.

I’ve been on this path for a long time and it has been a journey well worth taking.

I didn’t become happy overnight. It didn’t happen as a result of any one cause. It didn’t happen suddenly one day. I did not:

Receive an annuity.
Get a “dream job” (I do my “dream job” as it stands, such as it is).
Find the love of my life (already found)
Buy my dream house / dream car / dream boat
Get a massive piece of jewelry

I also didn’t have cosmetic surgery to look more like Kim Kardashian. I didn’t have a …

Facelift or fillers
Microneedling
PRP therapy
Brazilian buttlift
Breast implants and lift

Or any other aesthetic procedure.

The first thing I did to be happy

Moving to the right place. As I’ve written before, moving to SW Florida was one of the best decisions I ever made in my life. I’ll tell a story now that I’ve told friends…

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Amy Sterling Casil
Amy Sterling Casil

Written by Amy Sterling Casil

Over 500 million views and 5 million published words, top writer in health and social media. Author of 50 books, former exec, Nebula nominee.

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