Life enhancers

I have noticed that many people live crisis to crisis and while that is understandable, it is also a shame.

Perhaps because I work with small children, I notice there are many things in between the crises worth noticing and celebrating.

Placing my attention on a situation makes it bigger, more important, and while I can't ignore a crisis, I can certainly choose to not blow it up bigger than life.

The culture of my past tended to focus on these sad and bad moments. People remember the year of the big tornado, or the Christmas ruined by Uncle Arlo while, at the same time, forgetting the day baby Jimmy smiled for the very first time, or that time the sun came out right in the middle of a thunderstorm.

In a way, I think this is proof that good things happen more often than negative ones.  We simply don't have time to celebrate all the good times, or at least we think we don't.

The force of a negative experience seems to outweigh the pleasure of a positive one, but if I am truly present I discover there are more positive ones between the bad ones than I might have guessed and they are worth celebrating.

Life boosters, life savers, natural medicine for body and soul that are there for the taking.  Don't waste them.  Who knows what negative experiences do to us.

Positive ones, whether they are as small as a deep breath savored for ten seconds, or being licked by a happy puppy, when celebrated, are true life enhancers.