Find joy and happiness in small things

I think we can seek happiness in little things, by realizing how precious and special our own Life actually is, how special and wondrous all Life is as a process of evolution through learning and growing, and how beautiful a Life we can create for ourselves when we also focus on maximizing our growth and potential. Whenever I think about the probability about being born, how close Death can be on a daily basis, and how beautiful Life can be when we do our best to learn and grow in order to become the most capable person we can be and to become the best version of ourselves, I can virtually always feel grateful and happy enough for the opportunity that is given to me to become the version of myself.

And I think that by realizing this, I have been able to feel happiness seeing myself and other people and animals doing their best to learn and grow into the best version of themselves as well, and to look at nature’s beauty as the result of continuous development and growth, and that we can also create beautiful things by constantly doing our best to learn and grow as well. And primarily because of this, I think we can can all seek happiness in little things like seeing the result of continuous learning and growth, whether it’s nature’s development, or our own development.

How do you know that these things you call little things won’t turn out to be the big things, the important things in your life. Having someone to love and spend your evenings with may seem like a little thing but it is the most important thing that you will ever have in your life, if you are lucky. Having a comfortable safe place to lay your head each night may seem like a little thing but there are many in this world who don’t have comforts or peace. Many people live in fear because their governments doesn’t protect them.

Many don’t have freedom of speech or religion, or enough food to fill them, or clean water to drink. These are the little things to be thankful for and things to make you happy if you are lucky. Thank God that you have everything you need and that you can freely walk outside and enjoy fresh air and sunshine without fear. Smile and be thankful that love though unseen is a small gift that you can give and receive daily and your heavenly Father loves you. Say a prayer of thanksgiving and ask for what you need, give love freely for it has been given freely to you and be happy for the little things.

Expect less, be realistic and set smaller goals to feel that sense of accomplishment. Enjoy your work or find work that you enjoy. It’s not all about money. Forget about failure in the past and live for the moment. Enjoy the moments happiness. Quit worrying because 90% of what we worry about don’t happen. Adyashanti said “There’s no way to become happy. We simply need to stop doing the things that make us unhappy.”You pay attention to them. This is one of the uses of meditation. You can hold an autumn leaf, clear your mind and intuit its life and death. Where did it come from? Where is it going?

It has somehow come into your hand. You can toss it away without thought, or realize you hold something that never was before, and never will be again. You will happy and sad at the same time. This is Serenity. Here you see you can’t enjoy the simplest things or joy unless you have dealt with your traumas/issues/things that are bothering you. Somewhere at the back of your mind they will come back and haunt you.

But speaking for myself, I’m not the one that goes to the therapist and talks about any of it. Neither I have people I can open up to this easily. So notes is my best friend, I try to make peace with it and hope I have a better future. The future I know I deserve, the life I know I’ll be happy living. I suggest you not to go with my idea of dealing with your emotions.

And if you have people, be it friends of family and I really hope you do, go and talk. Deal with it. Maybe something they say will help you deal with your traumas and once you’ve dealt with all of it and made your peace is when you’ll look for the finer details of life. The happiness you can get even from the minute things which you never actually noticed. Moreover,if you’re someone who haven’t dealt with your previous issues, you might be happy for a while but it will come back to you. The unresolved feeling will be stuck forever.getting high or drunk is all short term, you’ll forget but only for a while and it won’t be long before it starts giving you problems with your relationships in future. Cheers!