Spark JOY

While dealing with an emotional breakdown and a fading marriage, Mira Manek found solace in simple rituals

- Mira Manek 

When I hit my lowest point around six years ago, I wasn’t able to rise from that deep, hollow, sinking feeling. I was in the midst of a very uncertain and lonely time in my marriage of five years, which I later realised marked the beginning of the end of that relationship. I did what I could to help myself at the time, and the one thing that I knew I had control over: the day ahead. Each morning, I only thought about that day.

I realised that by taking each day, one at a time, doing things that I knew made me happy that day—whether it was sitting in the sun (I was living between Dubai and London at the time), going for a spinning class, going for yoga, meeting a friend—I could guarantee at least a few moments of happiness that would lift my spirit in short spurts.