Earth's Smile

Everyone has a bad day, and I too have days where nothing seems to go right. Frustration, anger and sadness are usually the emotions we feel during bad days and we forget the little things that are truly beautiful. We forget the things that can bring always bring happiness.

A good example of this is snow. We see snow and we think about how depressing it is, how we have to clean it and how it hinders us from our daily activities. However, in this season, most people feel the pain of an empty hole in their aching heart. The February blues are a common lack of motivation that occurs and I know I get stuck in it every time. I always look to the small things around me that can cheer me up, and I found that snow really has much more than we can see. When you look at snow and you notice that falling snow is especially pretty, and when it piles up with a very thin layer of ice it sparkles like a diamond. Watching this makes you forget depression and sadness, and you feel motivated again. It’s these small things that help us get away from everyday patterns of life that really matter and these are the things that will always supply you with joy.

People are an emotional race, and sometimes we drown ourselves in it. We face different unhappy emotions, for a various reasons, and I know I suffer more from loneliness than anything else. To me, loneliness made me sad, scared and angry. I couldn’t resist the pain of it for long and I often thought about ways to get away from it. In reality, there is no way to get over these unhappy emotions without becoming happy. However, taking these emotions seriously can actually cause you to spiral more towards depression, because thinking makes people more emotional. The way to get through this is to take a carefree approach to life, and to be more relaxed about the way things are. Taking a nap under the sun on a hill may be carefree, and it may be lazy, but people don’t understand the perfection of the best spot and of the refreshing wind. When warm suns warms your body and the cool wind brushes by, the heart of the world reaches out to you and happiness will overflow from the earth beneath you. The lack of stress is really what will set someone free. They are so simple, and so effective. If we took the time to enjoy every day, from cloudy skies to sunny ones, we could fine many more ways besides these ones. In fact, watching the clouds and their carefree sky travel also can be very soothing. All it takes is a little time to calm down and to think about the good things about life, and life will become much more interesting. We just have to let it happen.

So next time; when you don’t feel completely content with life, take the time to breathe in fresh air, stare at the sky or look at the smaller things in this world. Then you will notice the bountiful happiness that makes up our world.