I just got something that I had wanted for so long. Out of the blue I found it and now it’s in my life. Every time I think of it I get frissons of excitement up my spine. It is such a lovely feeling. Gratitude. Appreciation. Thankfulness. Joy. I started to wonder why I don’t do it more. When I sit and think about it, I now have a lot of things that I had wanted for so long. The list is so long and so amazing. Why on earth don’t I take time to appreciate them?
It’s so easy to get caught up in the not so pleasant aspects of life that you forget to see the blessings. Rather than frown at the pile of laundry waiting to be folded and put away on my bed I can be grateful that I have so many lovely clean clothes to wear and strut my stuff in (not to mention that I have the stuff to strut ;-) ).
Life is beautiful. It’s all about the angle we choose to see it from. Since getting my mysterious and wonderful thing that I had wanted for so long. I have been trying to notice more the things that I have in my life that bring me joy. I realise now that my life is chock full of mysterious and wonderful things that I have wanted and received.
I find that I now dwell so much on adding more of this gratitude in my life, because of the immense transformational power it has. Most of my life I have been taught what others thought was fit to teach me. Now after nearly three decades of being alive I am realizing that I need to re-learn a lot of things that I once knew. Simple things like how to be grateful and how to be happy, how to enjoy things, how to have enough. I am rediscovering it in the lost art of savouring. Taking the good in your life and diving into it, basking in it, getting totally blissed out by it then when you’re done finding something else to savour. There’s always something else, and sometimes they hide in the seemingly most ordinary of things. Like a glass of water, a cool breeze, a person.
Today I am grateful for the art of savouring.
1 comment:
Sometimes it gets really hard to appreciate what you have. As humans we get so caught up in the pressures and needs of this instant and forget the achievements and blessings of just a few minutes ago. I find when I am in this mood(which is often) savouring doesn't come to mind and mostly I just want to dwell on how horrible I feel. Its a struggle to swim against that current and get to the positive side of things, but once you get there, you wonder why you didn't do it in the first place. Thanks for reminding me to keep swimming! just keep swimming swimming swimming...
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