Happiness is found in the simplest moments of what...

SUNDAY, 27 AUGUST 2017

Happiness is found in the simplest moments of what's called 'truly living'

FEELING ALIVE IS IN THE SIMPLEST MOMENTS...

I would like share a short story...

A man named George once attended a therapy session to try and overcome a love heart break. 

During the first session, the therapist assessed the patient's situation to see how she can help him. He was 40 years old, blind and had an assistant part-time to take care of some things he couldn't do due to his disability. At the end of the session, the therapist asked him to write down all the good things that has happened to him, during one day of the week.

After the patient left, the therapist started to doubt if the task was appropriate due to his disability, how can he think of good things that happen to him in one day, he will struggle completing such a hard task when he can't see a thing!. 

The following week, George enters the session with a briefcase. The therapist concerned about the difficult task requested, starts by apologizing, saying how out of order she was asking him to do such as hard task on the very first week of the sessions.

To her surprise, the patient replies that he completed the task and that it actually helped him feel better; while taking four notebooks out of his briefcase.

The therapist deeply surprised, starts reading the first notebook and just after two pages, she breaks into tears. 

When George concerned asks her what's wrong, she replies:   

"How can this be George! I am more depressed than you are..., and I haven't even noticed??!!"

 "I don't see any of the things you see......and you can't see but I can, so how does this happen?!"

Some of George's' notes....

• the shower's warm temperature in the morning
• the wonderful feeling of drying yourself with a dry towel
• being able to get into bed with clean bedding
• being able to get into bed wearing a clean pyjamas
• the smell of toasted bread
• the texture of tomato sauce at lunchtime
• the warmth of the sun on my face when I walk
• the smell of jasmines
• the sparkly bubbles of coca-cola heating my nose when I drink
• the kindness of a sales assistant in the supermarket...

Things that we live through many times each day, but that we don't see because we are more blind than George!. 

We are so fortunate to have our basic needs met everyday, that we have become more and more unsatisfied. We are looking constantly for more to make us happy, without understanding that happiness is a decision, a decision to be happy with what we have, not with what we lack.  

Happiness is an attitude, don't have to be cheerful permanently, but we can decide to be happy with what we have and where we are right now!.

A woman enjoying the sun and the breeze on her skin
Model in the picture: Lucia Daou Eseisa
Photograph taken by: Ruben Sanabria

The only difference between the therapist and George, is that his disability is visible while the disability of the therapist is hidden. Most people try to hide their inner disability, the disability within the soul, the one that doesn't see, feel life in the simplest things that we are able to live, in the small moments every day, from the moment we wake up.