Life Doesn’t Have To Be Perfect To Be Wonderful
I have a writing prompt for today from The Book of Alchemy by Suleika Jaquad. I read the prompt last night right before closing the book to go to sleep. This is the prompt: What is the moment - the place, the person, the activity - that has moved you to forget the time, to lose yourself, and to return to what can feel like forgotten depths or heights? And how can you begin to get back there, as early as tomorrow?
If I was on Family Feud, I would have hit the buzzer before the end of the question.
Hits imaginary buzzer: The BEACH
I hadn’t planned to go to the beach this morning, not even after I’d read the writing prompt, but when I woke up, I’d had enough rest and still had time to make it to the beach before sunrise.
I arrived at the beach, laid out a towel and sat down to write. It was 9 minutes before sunrise and people were leaving. It was a cloudy sunrise that wouldn’t be on time or viewable on the horizon, but there was a break in the clouds for the second sunrise and then a third. The people leaving reminded me of a passage in The Alchemist by Paul Coelho about when people think every day is the same, it’s because they fail to recognize the good things that happen every day the sun rises.
There are so many upside downs in my life that it’s hard to even write this sentence. Not because it’s hard to admit not being on the right side up of things, but because it feels like I’m complaining about it. The fact is, I feel so happy and blessed in spite of it all; the upside down parts don’t matter when the sun rises and I feel the glow shining on me like a spotlight.
She’s shining on me saying - you deserve this. I echo yes I deserve this and all the moments like this - coming to a place in my mind and in the physical realm, where I can reflect, see how far I have come and can appreciate my growth in spite of what I have been through.
The Alchemist
“For her, every day was the same, and when each day is the same as the next, it’s because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every day that the sun rises.” - Paul Coelho
I got up this morning with no expectations as to what the sunrise should/would look like. The people who left before the sun came up obviously had expectations. There were at least 10 other people on the beach with me before sunrise and by the time I took my last picture, I was the only one who had remained.
Don’t ever fail to recognize the good things that happen in mind, body and spirit every day that the sun rises.
Life doesn’t have to be perfect to be wonderful.
