Yesterday’s post about depression rendered a great deal of comments and many could evidently relate to that subject. Is it easier to relate to depression than happiness? I certainly hope not!
I don’t mean euphoria…like if you’d won a thousand bucks…I mean the very basic contentment when everything is in place — life isn’t all that dismal all the time, is it?! Most of the time it’s a delight to wake up each morning — to watch another sunrise (if you’re up that early).
Me?! I’m all about the little things in life…small pleasures that many of us take for granted. I’m fortunate enough to be living with the man I love…that is so obvious and I’ve written about that so many times.
I mean other things that we tend to forget…Whenever I want to I can jump into the car, drive down to the grocery store and buy whatever we need. I don’t have to accumulate each item as I walk around there — I don’t have to choose between buying a liter of milk or the newspaper.
Quite often I think of this when I go shopping and it fills me with a sense of deep gratitude and happiness. I’m not going to get too long winded about this but I just wanted to say that a hug, a kind word…an occasion to make somebody else happy…that just makes my day.
Just the fact that I was born in the time, age and country that I was…with all its conveniences like electricity and central heating…to make us feel warm and snug in front of our computers … that never fails to make me feel blessed!
Today I saw movement outside the window…a bird with a top-notch…it was a little too far away at first but I thought it was a blue jay. Stood up to get a better view and after a little while it came closer and turned out to be a cedar waxwing! A whole flock of them showed up here — they all lit in the same tree and a woodpecker was there too!
This only lasted for about ten minutes..I haven’t seen a waxwing since I left Sweden and Gerry said he hadn’t seen one either for at least thirty years! It was awesome!
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