The motto here is, "Make life sweeter... eat dessert first!" and it's an easy ethos to buy into.
Rejoice in all of life's little wins, and appreciate them for the ways they make life sweeter.
It makes life "sweet and smooth", but you can still get to work on it, and do your job just fine.
As my Songhay friends in West Africa like to say, a soulful quality makes life sweet, which, in turn, sweetens the quality of life in the world.
Like Rilke, who called death "our friend precisely because it brings us into absolute and passionate presence with all that is here, that is natural, that is love," Fusselman wants us to see that accepting death is what makes life sweet.
Working as a private tutor nowadays is a bit like being a confiseur for Marie Antoinette: no matter how much you spin the sugar into a confection about feeding society, you're really just making life sweeter for the rich.
In 1895, when the private house was the default housing choice of the wealthy, The Real Estate Record and Guide wrote that servants were happily leaving the jail of domestic service for even the lowest quarters: "there must be in the tenement something that makes life sweeter and more attractive to her".
Check out Gretchen Rubin's post from last week on "7 Tips to Make New Friends." Friends make life so sweet they are the sugar in our mixture.
Our children and siblings and lovers and friends who make life real and sweet.
None of these things in themselves are earth-shattering, but happy people take the time to notice them and notice the small moments that make life so very sweet.
