The smell of fresh brewed coffee in the morning, fresh baked bread, the light rise and chest fall of a sleeping loved one, a cool breeze, slowing down to listen to the sounds of everyday life. These are some of the things that give me that good serene feeling.
In today's age we are often too engrossed in our daily routines to stop and look around us at the reasons we do those routines. Earning a living, raising children, and all of the extra activities we do everyday gives us little time to enjoy why we do them in the first place.
Going to work to earn money to live is an easy one. It would be hard to function without money. In olden days the barter system worked well, but too few people today have the skill required to grow or make things, so that bartering could function.
Most people won't agree with me on this or wont admit it, but we are hard wired to procreate. Children are a blessing but also, sometimes, a curse. I think most people have children because 1. its in our genes and 2. its expected of us by our peers. I love my children and wouldn't give them up for any reason, but I wonder if I would do it again, knowing what I know today.
Extra activities are supposed to help us relax after a hard day at work or home taking care of the kids, but are they really relaxing? Going to the gym to work out when your body is already tired? Taking boxing or karate lessons? etc. etc. etc. Its seems that we run around from one activity to the next without a breather.
Try sitting in a park, close your eyes and take deep breaths of clean, fresh air and listen to nature. Listen to the squirrels scratching the ground to bury their acorns or the flutter of a birds wing as it takes flight. If you are near water, the ripple and splash as a fish jumps, the buzzing of bees. Relax and enjoy the moment. I would bet that for many people it would be very hard to do what I just suggested. We are so wound up in our lives that we have forgotten how to relax.
Serenity, or your vision of it, will be as different from one person to the next as the colors in nature. The goal is to find yours and force yourself to shed your objections to actually relaxing and let yourself go.
I have found mine, I started a blog about it. What is your serenity?
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