In the bliss of nature

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Life is a book everyone writes for himself/ herself. In this book, there are chapters of challenges, love, celebrations, hardships, joy, fulfillment and what not. It's great until we are content with reading our own book. The book which we have written with so much love and hard work. Every book has wonderful chapters which represent different stages of our life. I agree that the chapters are not always happy and fun filled. They have their share of failures, pain, heartbreak, and misery as well. But we learn from these chapters and move ahead with the book of life. So far so good. 

But, when in our free time, and while browsing through social media our phone, we invariably start peeking in other books. We start reading what others life is all about and from what we read it looks like their book has more happy stories than ours. Only we don't know that we do not have full access to others life book. The authors of those books only show us the happy parts of the book to keep us interested. They very well hide the sad troubled times from us. As they say - your grass is more green than my grass. The same happens, we start feeling discontent, ungrateful and lost.

I have to confess, this feeling discontent phase keeps coming to me every 2 years or so. Only this time, I have a plan to counter it. Expressing gratitude. I am starting a #gratitudeweek wherein I will be posting a gratitude post once in a few days for something I am grateful for in my life.

Here goes post 1.

The greens , the earth, the nature, the air, the rains - the bliss they provide. I am utterly grateful to the mother nature for bestowing these favors on me. To enjoy the dance of the breeze, to witness the drops as they fall, to amaze at the greenery around. I am grateful to the almighty for creating this beautiful beautiful earth and giving me my tiny presence on this. The best memories I have is under the open sky, by the sea, capturing the myriad colors of flowers, trying to scale a mountain( getting scaled myself in the process), smelling the aroma of wet earth or vegetation. And what is more amazing is that all these amazing things are on a perpetual Sale. Free, free, free.

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