Gratitude bestows reverence, allowing us to encounter everyday epiphanies, those transcendent moments of awe that change forever how we experience life and the world. ~ John Milton
Do you find some days you just feel.... "meh?" Rather like you have a complete absence of feeling; instead of any deep emotion. Or, your emotions are so over charged it's just FEELINGS!!! all over the place. I hate those kind of days. I cannot pinpoint the problem -- why I am all out of sorts.
Those kind of days can just take you on a deep dive and continue on further South, no matter what you try to do to turn the tide.
I would like to seek a better balance. A little more equilibrium. A little less whiney oh woe is me. Because that's usually what it comes down to: I'm making it all about ME.
It's a great, big, wide world out there! Good stuff happening every day! But yeah, I am a messy, complicated human and I need reminders. Still.
These OneGoodThing posts have been great to help me stay on track, and I love that I will have a digital record of all the good things that tend to sneek up on me when I was too busy to stop. The ones I did stop and notice. And even the ones, on those sort of days, I have to dig way down and pull them up by their roots.
I'm the creative sort of course. I write in journals. Duh. I even made my Girl Guide Sparks do Gratitude journals one week. Guider: guide thyself!!
Now... the perfect journal???? Enter a good friend; a good thing in a category unto itself.
It's pocket size, so it fits in my purse easily. I can take it anywhere. Now you might think it's too small. What can you write on one tiny page? No pictures!!
Well, that is what I like about it. I cut everything down to the simplest form. What is special about this day?
A hug from ZooZoo? Flowers from Left Brain? A rainbow during our holiday trip?
Simple. Little nuggets of truth and beauty. Maybe, unadorned even. But it's all good. And I carry it with me, wherever I go.
I think that may just be the secret to happy days.