This Most Amazing Day

Posted on by Sandi Amorim 7 Conversations

 

e.e. cummings quote on image taken at Ruby Lake Resort, BC

Some days I don’t feel grateful.

I feel sullen and resentful, and a bit let down by this thing called Life.

Some days the pull towards the negative is like a strong undercurrent doing its best to pull me under.

I hear it often in my work, but I do my best not to go there; not to talk about it myself.

But the truth is, we all have those days, and moments in life that frustrate the hell out of us.

We all consider giving up at some point.

Until the choice becomes clear.

We can relax and let ourselves be pulled down into the deep, dark waters or. . .

We can refuse to succumb.

We can choose to find some small way to feel better, and reverse the flow of energy.

It’s not as difficult as we think:

  • a walk in nature
  • your toes in the ocean
  • acknowledging your yearnings
  • time with yourself and your journal
  • connecting with a loved one

Feeding your soul in any way that feels good to you.

Start there, and each small step or action will lead you slowly but surely back into resourcefulness.

 

7 conversations started on “This Most Amazing Day”

  1. Oh Sandi.  You have no idea how much I love you for this piece.  Because, although I know you to be human like the rest of us, I kind of had it in my head that you pretty much always had your shit together.  I might have even pictured rainbows and glitter surrounding you and your day…kind of like Snow White and the birds who land adoringly on her finger.  🙂
    It’s easy to think we’re the only ones feeling crushed by the weight of circumstance.  I love that the remedy is not to snap out of it or start a gratitude journal or chant while hopping on one foot, but to do one small thing that feels good.  Thank you for sharing!

  2. Nicely put Sandi.  It seems in my world that as I continue to look for that one thing that feels better or to be on the lookout for joy regardless of the gloom that surrounds me It becomes a way of being in the world.  Not that there aren’t moments of the negative, but it’s almost as tho’ they just don’t stick like they used to.

    e-hugs

  3. Love what Elle and Ellen said.  And I love what you wrote, Sandi.  It’s particularly poignant to me today because yesterday I saw the mother and father of a woman who did give up.  M took her own life a few weeks ago.  I wonder if there was a time when M could have read a post like this and been inspired to find “some small way to feel better” and if it could have made a difference?  I like to hope so for the sake of the next M who is suffering.

  4. Love what Elle and Ellen said.  And I love what you wrote, Sandi.  It’s particularly poignant to me today because yesterday I saw the mother and father of a woman who did give up.  M took her own life a few weeks ago.  I wonder if there was a time when M could have read a post like this and been inspired to find “some small way to feel better” and if it could have made a difference?  I like to hope so for the sake of the next M who is suffering.

  5. Ellen Berg As much as I’d like to hide behind the veneer of having my shit together, the truth is I have these days and moments like anyone else. Most of the time they don’t last long because it has become my practice to notice the good as ElleSommer suggests. Every once in a while though, taking one small step or action forward is all I can do. It’s time we stopped beating ourselves up for that, and instead give ourselves what we need in that moment.

  6. ElleSommer Yes, as we practice looking for joy, those moments don’t last like they used to and that’s very good news! And on those other days? Well, one small step is good enough 🙂

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