Little things make up our day…We have a mix of them – good things, bad things, and the day get evaluated based on which ones were in majority. Some time I feel as if my day was colourless, that I had nothing in it worthy of making a note of…I’ve tried to re-wind my bleak today…and was surprised to discover few “signature” moments - things, events, people that made this day different from any other day, a somewhat “special” day…in a way. Every day can be the one.
Today I received an unexpected pleasant gift – something very small, but it washed me in the warm emotions. Someone from the Daily Strength site sent me a message that says…” thank you for helping through the bad time and just wanted to share that I have found new love and happiness, just as you predicted…”…now, this person was some one I’ve communicated once or twice back in the beginning of December. We just sent to each other encouraging words, that’s all…and like with many members of that emotional community, people come and people go, once they feel strong enough, there is no obligations there to keep communications out of pure politeness, no one mind if friends just disappear from the site, getting back into real life. It was SO GREAT to hear that someone's dream came true, when we were in the same boat just a couple of months ago! I also appreciated him letting me know and somewhat touched that he thought of sending me a note. There was absolutely no reason for doing this. It made me smile. It made my day.
I am thinking about people who have the ability to share their happiness, not just their problems…there ain’t that many out there. We became the society of shared misery and keep-to-yourself joy.
I keep looking for more of the nice things in my day and keep finding more of them…maybe not that big, maybe not happened directly to me, but where I happened to be an eyewitness…there are things that have not been lost within the folds of the routine, things that made me peacefully balanced.
I like me more and more. I might have lost certain things about me, but I certainly found some others…the simple idea of allowing others to choose the way how they interact with me helped to set my mind free from futile expectations. We can be close or apart, we can talk tête-à-tête or through the buzzing background noise of a crowd, we can sit in silence or chat the day away…let it be not my choice. In the end of a day it is not me who turned off the road we’ve been on…I haven’t moved, I haven’t change the postcode, I didn’t ask anyone to adjust their satnav so they can re-discover me again. I’m here, where I’ve always been. Now all is up to you.
Today I received an unexpected pleasant gift – something very small, but it washed me in the warm emotions. Someone from the Daily Strength site sent me a message that says…” thank you for helping through the bad time and just wanted to share that I have found new love and happiness, just as you predicted…”…now, this person was some one I’ve communicated once or twice back in the beginning of December. We just sent to each other encouraging words, that’s all…and like with many members of that emotional community, people come and people go, once they feel strong enough, there is no obligations there to keep communications out of pure politeness, no one mind if friends just disappear from the site, getting back into real life. It was SO GREAT to hear that someone's dream came true, when we were in the same boat just a couple of months ago! I also appreciated him letting me know and somewhat touched that he thought of sending me a note. There was absolutely no reason for doing this. It made me smile. It made my day.
I am thinking about people who have the ability to share their happiness, not just their problems…there ain’t that many out there. We became the society of shared misery and keep-to-yourself joy.
I keep looking for more of the nice things in my day and keep finding more of them…maybe not that big, maybe not happened directly to me, but where I happened to be an eyewitness…there are things that have not been lost within the folds of the routine, things that made me peacefully balanced.
I like me more and more. I might have lost certain things about me, but I certainly found some others…the simple idea of allowing others to choose the way how they interact with me helped to set my mind free from futile expectations. We can be close or apart, we can talk tête-à-tête or through the buzzing background noise of a crowd, we can sit in silence or chat the day away…let it be not my choice. In the end of a day it is not me who turned off the road we’ve been on…I haven’t moved, I haven’t change the postcode, I didn’t ask anyone to adjust their satnav so they can re-discover me again. I’m here, where I’ve always been. Now all is up to you.