be content with what I have

without really writing much. I cant even remember why I put it on my list to be honest – perhaps I was having a bad day?

I have a roof over my head, a boyfriend I adore, a stable job and loving family. So all in all I am very lucky and content with my life at the moment : )

I guess I wanna lose a couple of 1 lbs but this isn’t really the right goal for that!

I need to be grateful for the good in my life. :) And work to change the things that should be changed without coveting and being envious and vain,

I am always wanting something new, something bigger, something better, something faster, something more. But I need to learn to be content with the many things I am already blessed with.

around the holidays. Miss the times when I celebrated it too. I think I find some kind of a perverse pleasure in feeling sorry for mylself. Oh poor me, one night of the year I have nowhere to go. There are people living on the street, sleeping in the cold. People with sick children or family members. People with relatives fighting wars. People who can’t afford basic necessities. And I whine about being alone on Christmas. I, with all these opportunities and comfort in my life. This stops now. I have so much that not being grateful is criminal.

Went to the beach this weekend just for the afternoon by myself. Now that it is only a three hour drive, I want to do this more. Just listened to the waves, watched kids play, and mellowed out. It’s a pilgrimage for me to come here, and a place to be restored.

Catch me next week to see if I’m pining for something again.

when you’re a moron like me.

For me, anyhow, I had only to do my best to get what I want. I can’t be content if there’s something I want to do that I’m not doing. If I do all that I can to make my life the way I want it to be, however, I’m not only content, but happy, too, whether I succeed or fail.

Sometimes being content means just an uplift in mood. Lighting a scented candle in my bedroom while I drink good tea, and read good books is a great way to be content while I wait for life’s larger developments to take place. This winter it seems like life is dormant, but I know I will blossum in the spring.

It is the very nature of the universe that things break; things go wrong; we make mistakes; we screw up. So being content with what I have today makes a peaceful sort of sense and I feel grateful for the things that went right instead.