Let us remember the time, place and fragrance of those precious moments we lived, which maybe even as short as one sixteenth of a second when we were children, those magical moments that our mind ‘still’ graciously allows us to remember. I know that we go to those secret places with a single thought. We then notice a smile forming on our face as a memory of blissfulness fills the universe of our mind. At that precise moment we may notice that we are happy. The whole process we just went through was free.
We did not pay any money for this thought, nor did we stand in line and wait hours for it, we did not revise for it like in an exam, nor did we compete for it. Happiness was there in a single moment.
This is not to say that we should live in the past or fake our selected happiness, not at all, it means that we should live in; and for the present moment while remembering that ‘gratefulness’ will make us more inclined towards happiness and not the other way round.
The happiness, I wrote about above was that of a pleasant past memory which we are grateful for. Other forms of gratefulness can be the amazing fact that we actually woke up this morning, a fact that we can be happy for, many people in the word did not wake up for many reasons.
Other forms of happiness can be found in the little pleasures of life, like being kind, and making a kind gesture to someone, and without knowing it, perhaps, even making their day. This will again, not only bring them happiness but also bring happiness to you, and the beauty of these transactions are that they are absolutely and completely free.
I personally feel through my own experience, that it is important for us to not only to count our blessings but to find great happiness in the smaller gestures rather than waiting for that large happiness to arrive. We may miss out on many pleasures while waiting for the large.
The reason for writing this particular article is not to try and state the obvious, but for it to be used as a gentle reminder that our gratefulness will lead to our happiness which in turn may help our own sanity in this wonderfully hectic and complicated world we live in. It is in itself a gesture of love and well-being to you the reader which is ‘hopefully’ free.
Blessings to you