Little… Small…Short and Tiny

Everyday life gives us a blessing, health, family, work, love, money or just a moment of joy, a smile, a genuine piece of advice, a new exposure, an opportunity... yet we intend to always look for the things that we don't have. It is true we cannot have all what we want or aspire, but why the rush on having everything!!! if we do have it all... then what's next? What will we be working for? or waiting for? Once we got what we were dreaming of, we start immediately to nag about another thing.

My friend, a gorgeous woman, educated, accomplished, married to an entrepeuneur, has a healthy beautiful son. Every time I see her or call her, she has to complain about something. I wonder what else she is missing. She is in love with her husband, bought her dream house, and drives the latest of her favorite car. Every conversation we have I try to keep highlighting her blessings, and what matters really is health and family. Then I had a look on myself. I do complain too, and always feel that I have to have more or something is missing... As if I have to play the role of an advisor to my friend, but I forget that I am just like her. I am living in a city I always dreamt of living in, I have a breathtaking attic, have a job I like, yet not too challenging for me, surrounded by good friends. What else do I need? I keep dragging myself to think of the past... of all the sad moments I lived...and I focus on all what I am missing in my life... let's what I don't have.
Then I try to be my personal therapist, I remind myself of the blessings I have, of how courageous I am to build a new life in a totally new place in less than a year.
I realize now that no one can really show the other the positive side of their lives. It has to come from within; it has to be a personal choice to feel content and satisfied about your life. Patience plays a great role as well, step by step; we can get and reach everything we want. My dad-God Bless His Soul- used to remind me that God didn't create the whole universe in one day. It is good to be ambitious in life, to be excited, to fulfill all your dreams, but I have two concerns here: Are we trying to live our own dream? or a dream that has been set for us by our families and societies, drawn from their own expectations about us. The other thing, while we are trying to accomplish a dream, are we forgetting to live the current moment? And keep convincing ourselves that once I have this or do that I will be happy. Are we scarifying living the moment in order to get a moment we don't have yet, and not so sure that we will be happy when we reach it!!!!
I am trying to live this exciting journey called life... sometimes I am another copy of my friend... and many times.. I become my own advisor and seize the moment...
I reached to a conclusion... if life is too short, so why not to have short, small, tiny daily dreams... which are reachable, doable and fun to accomplish...that's how we don't waste our lives and we can live the moment...

I will try...

Aurora