appreciate life

why is this so hard? just because i feel im missing one thing (and i no wot that is) i feel that i cant appreciate what i do have. some days are easier then others and i feel like i just get through each day looking to get whats missing.

so true. that is all I have to say.

haven’t been doing too well on this one for the last few days but am turning it back around. i suppose everyone has bad moments from time to time

I know I am creating a lot of goals today, well here’s the thing. Today I was pooped…between a hangover (which I haven’t had in about a year) to a morning of laundry, cleaning, grocery shopping and cooking. So I tried to unwind with music and the thought to write.

I should create a goal to update these entries as I go…to keep my goal in the front of my mind.

Anyway no complaining. Just absorbing…appreciating…and enjoying. We’ll start with 1 week and this is big things but the little stuff…not wanting to go to work or being upset because someone pushed you on the train…let’s see if this works.

Maybe my moral will improve :)

I love life and thats why I am working on improving myself so that I can enjoy life to the fullest I think that everyone has this appreciation deep down, it just takes a little bit of digging

my weight makes me appreciate life less- Once I lose 5 pds I should be happier

I find it hard to appreciate life when it seems so worthless and when I feel so miserable 24/7

Today, another year older, another year wiser so they say.
I want to gain a new appreciation of life. It’s kind of silly how it’s taken ‘ichi rittoru no nadima’ ‘a litre of tears’ to make me realise it. It’s a very emotionalally moving docu-drama documenting the struggle of 15 year old Aya Ikeuchi, who’s been diagnosed with spinocerebellar degeneration – a terrible disease where the cerebellum of the brain gradually deteriorates to the point where the victim cannot walk, speak, write, or eat. A cruel disease, as it does not affect the mind in the least. It’s an amazing serise, and the songs are amazing too. I think it’s fair to say, it makes everyone who watches cry. I say, watch this or you might miss your biggest ever life lesson.
Though, after watching it, I realised how much I blame everyone else for my mis-givings, and how I don’t appreciate what I have half as much as I should. So, today, I’ll begin my path to self appreciation. So many things I take for granted, that the serise puts into perspective. Being able to eat, drink, walk, talk. Many people really don’t apreciate how special these basic things are. If I had such a disease, I don’t think I would ever appreciate life or show such courage as Aya does.
I expect so much yet give so little, That’ll change too. Granted, it won’t happen over night, but it will happen in time. I actually look forward to it. Just being alive is a beatiful thing.
じゃ、 あした はじめろ

I’ve been better and better at this, the longer I’ve been on the road. I see that a lot of the things that come to me are not chance, but simply manifested by my love and appreciation for life. When hard times knock, I’ve gotten very good at sitting back, looking at what’s presented, and learning from it. Seeing the lessons in everything. I am not perfect, and don’t always succeed at seeing the best, but Once Upon A Time, I didn’t even know this was a possiblity. I’m very grateful for being turned on to it.

“However mean your life is, meet it and live it: do not shun it and call it hard names. Cultivate poverty like a garden herb, like sage. Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends. Things do not change, we change. Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.”

Henry David Thoreau

... and the world, the more I realize how lucky I am to have what I have and be where I am. I really need to be more grateful.