There is a Shania Twain song that has the words: "From this moment, I have been blessed."
She is talking about finding her happiness from the man she is about to marry. While finding happiness this way does help, it actually ended very badly for Shania. Definitely, a story for another time.
But back to the subject of finding happiness, what if we changed the words to:
In this moment, I have been blessed
What if these words are the key to happiness. Big statement I know. Too simplistic? Most likely. Something to think about? Most definitely.
When your yesterdays have been difficult, you are tempted to think that you will never be “happy”. When your tomorrows are uncertain, it is possible to feel overwhelmed with anxiety that there is no happiness to look forward to.
Life can be complex, unpredictable and at times completely out of our control.
In those times, when I feel that it is out of my control and there is nothing I can do to change what is happening around me, I have learnt to narrow my focus to just think only of today. I have decided that I will cherish and be glad in the happiness of today, where ever I am and whoever I am with.
I can still be disappointed about the past. I can still be anxious about tomorrow but the happiness of today is just too precious to waste.
And when the todays are themselves difficult, I have learnt to narrow my focus to “this moment".
That moment when I have woken up in my warm bed, in the house that I rebuilt and with my family and my dogs and I know that “in this moment, I have been blessed.”
That moment when I have been on a walk and the storm clouds are high in the horizon and the sun is turning the white clouds into silver and pink and I think in this moment, how beautiful it looks.
That moment when that thing you have worked on forever, comes together and you know in this moment, you have created something amazing.
That moment you first taste something delicious someone else has cooked for you and you think how wonderful that moment is.
That moment, you were all around the dinner table and someone said something funny and you all just burst out in raucous laughter.
That hug,
that sunrise,
that look,
that music,
that book,
those words.
And those moments lately, when our amazing Olympians are just dazzling us with their incredible feats. Those moments of happiness have carried me despite everything that is happening around me and I think in these moments, how lucky we are to be able to enjoy this!
I have found what happens that is that the moments of happiness start to add up into days when there have moments of happiness. While I know that not every day will be the same and for some this is not so simple, the moments add up into:
owning a happiness that lives within whatever life you are living.
I think if we look back at our lives, in the midst of it all, even in the darkest of times, there are definitely moments where we have been deliriously happy. These moments are the precious ones, the ones that we can hold onto in our book of memories.
As we create and hold onto more and more of these moments, they become the framework to help to define the happiness of your life.
And as I get the chance to write this blog, at this time and on this day, I know....in this moment, how incredibly blessed I am.
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