365 days project 2: Day 14. Happy SUNday

   Every day is a miracle. It brings a new gift that can make your day beautiful. It's right there, in front of you, you just have to reach it and grab it. 

   I had the perfect Sunday, full of sun, new books, smiles, kisses, love, addictive games, new recipes and just laying in the sun and soaking it in. You don't need a lot of things to be happy. Anything will do, really. It's just a matter of opening your heart and accepting the wonder of life unfolding in front of you. 

   Happiness day, first day of spring and everything is in bloom. At last, our spring is here. Less than two months :)

365 days project 2: Day 13. Right here, right now

   Close your eyes. Listen. Feel. Can you hear the birds chirping? Can you feel the sun on your skin? Everything's happening Right Now. Spring is in full bloom. Look around. What's new compared to last week? When was the last time you paid attention to what was happening to you Right Then?

   Today I remembered some experiences happen just once in a lifetime and I want to fully live them. This is the place (picture) where I'll celebrate my wedding in less than 2 months: Wonderland. 

   Today we tasted some food for the big event. Many other people tasted the same food in the same time as we did. How many of them did it automatically because it had to be done and how many of them lived the experience to the fullest? No one knows. But once I got outside of the venue and I looked around I saw THIS: beautiful and elegant, ready to receive brides and grooms and their families celebrating their big day. 

   I'm so excited! We're one step closer to the wedding. I hope it'll be sunny. But we'll cross that bridge when we get there. Until then I want to live in the NOW and enjoy this feeling for 2 more months :) It'll never come back. 

365 days project 2: Day 12. Push me

   Once upon a time there was a little seed laying in the soil. The room was dark and the seed was lacking sun and water to be able to grow. So the master took the seed and put it in a different room, full of sun and warmth and watered it enough until this beautiful plant grew out of the seed and little blossoms could be seen everywhere. 

   How would the seed end up if no one would have moved it? Dead, for sure. That's how, in real life we all need "pushers", the people who make you surpass your imposed limits, the ones who push you outside your comfort zone and make you grow, be a better version of yourself.
   I met a pusher today and I was frustrated to be pushed. I really liked it in my very comfy bubble and I didn't want to step out of my comfort zone. But after some minutes I really thought about it and I realized being pushed is not so bad because it will make me grow and gain more experience. And that's how changing your mindset can change a frustrating event into a helpful one.
   We live and learn, but it wouldn't be the same without the pushers :)

365 days project 2: Day 11. Serendipity

   Picture this: you're waiting for the bus and an old lady comes up to you, asks something about a bus, you realize you're waiting for the same one and you start talking. You've never seen her in your life and you will probably never see her again. Still she carried a very deep message that made you meditate long after you parted. Then, the very next day you sit down on your regular bus and an old man sits down next to you and he starts talking to you mainly about the same ideas the previous day's lady talked about. Now, we all know old people love to chat about their life but what are the odds that in two consecutive days two different people randomly come to you and talk about the same thing: how to live a long and happy life? 

   These two encounters made me think that the Universe was trying to send me a message. So I opened my heart and soul and I listened. I remembered I was praying for guidance for a while and then I knew: this was the guidance I needed. 

   If somebody else would have met these two people they would have just shruged it off and said "ah, old people, so chatty" and just leave it at that and go on with their life. But I'm the one who notices all the little details and then improves her life borrowing some old people's wisdom gathered in so many years of living on this planet. Why not open your heart and listen to what random encounters bring? Maybe the Universe is trying to send you a message. Make sure you're getting it! :)

365 days project 2: Day 10. Learn from your mistakes

   Mistakes. We make them daily. We hurt people without wanting, we wake up in the middle of a fight we didn't look for and we want to solve it but we can't because we are told we can't undo what we did. And that hurts us as much as it hurts them because not a single second did we think that our actions can have such wild consequences.

   People choose to feel hurt, to be victims. Sometimes no matter how much you try to explain the rational reason behind your action they won't accept it. So you let them be and you learn from your mistakes, what you did wrong to hurt them. You decide you'll be paying more attention next time because in the end some people are more sensitive than others even if they don't seem like it.

365 days project 2: Day 9. Good day

   When we are kids we see life as an endless field covered in snow: white. In the first years we receive. And receive. And receive. Information, love, attention, gifts. When we start growing up we are taught we have to give back too. Life turns black. So many things we HAVE to give, so many rules to obey, so many people asking things from us. Teenage years. When we become adults we realize life is definitely not just white or black but that it has those "50 shades of grey" in it. We have to go through countless experiences to reach that wise destination, but I am hopeful that most of us do. 

   Now, about that white in there though. I don't want to think that as we grow up we lose our faith in humanity and world in general. We all keep our inner child with us and we are all happy when something good happens to us. And something good happens every day. These are the things that made me happy today:

1. I received an unexpected "just because" gift full of things that I like very much.

2. The kids at the kindergarten liked my activity and they were brave to accomplish a rather difficult task.

3. I had a very deep one-on-one conversation with a 6 year old.

4. I had a very good talk with the principal.

5. I received a very touching praise from a girl's granny.

6. I bought a new bag! Yahoo!

7. I found out that next week I'll start the dancing lessons for the wedding!

8. I caught the bus just in time.

What made YOU happy today? 

365 project 2: Day 8. Don't worry, be happy, feel good

"Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life?" 

Matthew 6:25-27

   We worry every day. about small stuff and big stuff. Our brain is wired like that. Some worry more than others, but we all go through this. And we run from point A to point B and then C and D and E and F for a whole day. Did you ever count how many places you visit a day? On Mondays I visit around 5. 

   We go on and on and we want to meet expectations and be the best in what we do because that's how we were raised but on our wanders from point A to point B we should also look around and observe the world around us. This is how we notice tiny, little day changing events like a crow eating a pastry from the ground. It picked it up and it took it on a wire to eat it undisturbed. How amazingly smart these birds are and thus they survive and live on happily. While I was observing this, I remembered the Bible quote above and it just hit me: even if I might be 3 minutes late, walking is better than running and people won't think I am the worst person ever if I am not there on the dot. 

   I have "wake up moments" like these when I realize I should take it slow. Yeah, organize it all, but slow down and breathe and do what i love most: look around, notice life blooming, birds eating and then singing happily and know that whatever comes, everything will be fine. Such a small moment made my day :)