Modern life, in the modern age; so busy, rushed and focused. Our lives are filled with abundance and the good things that make up a happy, healthy, productive, satisfying life. Yet do we feel satisfied, do we have time to appreciate the good things? So much of modern live is based on having and obtaining rather than generating and sharing.
We are driven to have stuff, to fill our lives and homes with things, make money to buy the stuff and find time to enjoy it. But what if we decide to shift our focus towards giving time to ourselves and those around us? Sharing life and love at a slow pace and focusing on the small, simple and good everyday things that can give a true sense of joy and fulfilment?
We should not try to found happiness on all the things we want and desire. Think of how blessed we are to live a life already filled with abundant riches. Clean running water, plentiful food, choice, wealth, warmth and safety. Not all people have even the most basic of everyday blessings that we in the western world take for granted.
Learn to appreciate everyday, that you are truly blessed, to be living a life full of opportunity and freedom. Look out the window, feel the warmth of the sun and know you are living a wonderful life.
Consider the good things; friends, family, time, space and freedom. Think of things that you do that make you happy that don’t involve having or obtaining. Spend a day outside, a picnic with friends, gardening or visit an art gallery or museum, take a bush walk or go to the beach.
If we step away from the need to have all the time and look towards sharing, giving and generating time and appreciation for the small things; then we can change the focus of our lives for the better.
We can stop rushing through life trying to fill it to the brim and start to enjoy what we already have. Take time each day to enjoy small, simple, everyday goodness, whether it be a warm shower, waking up in a comfy bed, good conversation, laughter, the sunshine outside or the stars at night. These things fill our lives already, let us make sure we don’t take them for granted and waste the opportunity for a truly happy, satisfying and abundant life.
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"I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something. And because I cannot do everything I will not refuse to do the something that I can do." ~Hellen Keller
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