Happy Thoughts…
by Rumi
God, I love Rumi. I think he is my all-time favourite poet and philosopher.
So… I apologize for my massive hiatus. Honestly, I have been feeling a little lost recently. I dont know if I am totally alone in this feeling, but the past month of my life I have sort of felt like I have been skimming the surface; just sort of floating through things and not really committing to anything. This plays into all the areas of my life.
I don’t like this feeling at all. Last week, at work, I had the most bizarre experience. For the first time in my career I totally zoned out at work. Thank God for Tom Welling, who reminded me very gently that we are there to tell a story and he wasn’t really sure what I was telling that day. His beautiful and loving feedback really helped to snap me back into reality. I suddenly thought “What am I doing? I have the most awesome job in the world. I work with people that I adore, and I get paid ample to do this.”
It’s so easy to get caught up in my head space of what I don’t have and where I’m not, that I forget to recognize the beauty in what I do have and where I am. I have decided to make a list of the things I love so that I can remind myself of the details in my life that I’ve been ignoring recently.
Who knows? Maybe we have some things in common. Ok, here goes. I love:
- ice cream
- laughing
- friends
- movies
- warm wool socks
- getting into a hot shower after being out in the cold rain and feeling my toes defrost
- art
- books
- taking an amazing photograph
- touching down after a long flight in a totally new country
- movie previews
- good acting
- overatures at the ballet
- bows at the end of a performance
- my nephew’s bounce
- when my dog scratches his nose on the ground
- hitting a scene just right
- hearing my best friends hour long messages on my machine
- flowers
- when the sun breaks through on a rainy day
- amazing alliterations in Tom Robbins’ novels
- my boyfriends cooking
- going to an art opening
- walking down the street, with the leaves changing and my arm wrapped around someone
- singing
Ok…wow, I feel better. It would be so cool if you all tried this and commented with your list. I would love to see the things we have in common! Thanks for listening to me vent. I so appreciate all of you! oh and hey!!!!
Oh, I won a Teen Choice again!!!!! So cool, right? Maybe this year I will get a surfboard!
Ciao for now
Allison
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