Don’t Take It For Granted

There’s really nothing to write about this week.

Seriously.

I mean, I know it’s weird for me to say that but, nothing major happened this week that stood out in my mind.

Usually, of course, there’s something poignant on my mind that I then write about and share with all of you…

But this week… Yeah, not so much.

Don’t get me wrong… on the whole, it was a fine week… there was just nothing extraordinary that happened.

That was my thought process when I was thinking about this week’s column, even when I opened my laptop to start to write. But then I got to thinking… why do we always need “something” to happen?

So many of us are conditioned to needing and expecting something extraordinary to happen at least every bunch of days… whether it be something strange, or exciting, or dramatic, or even positive, that we get upset if it doesn’t occur.

But why do we feel that need? Or more importantly, should we really have that mindset and mentality and feel that need to always have “something” occur?

I mean, I get the appeal of something happening, whether it’s positive or negative; it gets the blood flowing, the adrenaline going, and invokes emotions in us… it makes us feel something, even if it’s negative, and gets us excited.

But, again, why do we need that? Why isn’t everyday life enough for us, even just from time to time? We (hopefully) have jobs that we like and enjoy and find fulfilling…

OK, OK, that one can be a hard sell at times, and not everyone is fortunate enough to have that be the case for them, I’ll give you that one…

BUT… the vocational aspect certainly isn’t the only element of our everyday life which, I hope, brings us all joy and pleasure. We have the simple things like the music we enjoy and the TV shows we watch. We have the restaurants and activities that we enjoy. And most importantly, we have our families and friends each day to talk to and spend time with…

When something exciting happens, yeah, it can be great… and even if it’s not something on the positive side of the spectrum, it still gets us going and gets our adrenaline pumping, and makes us feel something that we don’t always feel, which we then usually find enjoyable in some way.

But, there’s joy in the everyday things too. So why not take a moment from time to time to enjoy and appreciate the everyday things… And appreciate our friends and family and the little things that we get to experience every day, and not take them for granted.

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway

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