In The End The Small Things Become The Big

It occurred to me recently that I have forgotten to appreciate life's simple pleasures.  Like the tomato and basil salad above for instance  - that I made and got to share with a dear friend in a beautiful grand house we were sitting.  When you let the balance out of your life you are basically wishing your life away because when you let the balance out it's usually because you've on some level decided to let fear in.  When you make decisions from a seat of fear, they are usually bad. Very bad.  At best they are wishful thinking and at worst they are just destructive in the long term.  I've spent far too much time cogitating about what I don't have then on what I do. It's an alien position for me to take as I'm naturally positively-minded. I do know how lucky I am all things considered.  Instead, I've allowed myself to become distracted by thoughts of what could be instead of keeping a steely eye on what is.  I know better than that.  I really do.  As a trained yoga teacher it is the very foundation of that philosophy. An attitude of gratitude; conscious living.   The fact is other than those in war-torn countries or living with true poverty - we. live. in. paradise.

We all have the ability to harness our thoughts and use them for good of self and/or others.  But I'd lost patience with myself - naughty, naughty.  And perhaps I'd just let myself become bored.  How silly of me.  I live in one of the most interesting countries in the whole wide world.

It's time to relax! and remember that we cannot control what others choose to do - nor should we want to.  Our responsibility is to ourselves in the first instance.  To be accountable for our own feelings and responsible for our own actions.  Ours is to respond, not react.  We all have free -will after all.  

So next time I 'forget' to count my blessings, I'd do worse than to remember that I got to look after a house like this:

And walk beautiful creatures like this on beautiful beaches:

With wonderful friends like this:

Now get a grip girl, be thankful and live well!