The Pandemic has changed so many things. One of the areas where I felt the most significant change is my work life. The pandemic has done another major thing for me. It has taught me a lesson on contentment.
When the pandemic started, I started working remotely. My commute including the time to prepare takes me around one and a half hours. As soon as I started remote work, one and a half hours were added to my life daily. For me, it meant that my time with my family went up immediately. It was really exciting. In the initial days – we enjoyed this time. However, as we all know, what is exciting today becomes mundane tomorrow and forgotten the day after.
After some time – that became the norm. I completely forgot about this.
One day I suddenly realized that I had completely forgotten about this gift I had of family time.
That day – when I was having time with family in the late afternoon – I closed my eyes and thought that I am enjoying this gift of time now. I felt a strange sense of satisfaction. After that, I tried to remind myself of the gift every day. Eventually, this has become a habit –I go into a mode of deep satisfaction when I enjoy that time.
This made me realize that – to be truly contented – to feel life’s gift, I need to find I way to remind myself daily of all the great things in my own life.
It struck me – what if I try to remember all the great things that brought me a deeply satisfying life?
I started looking at my life. I started listing all the great things that happened to me. All the major things I have achieved. All the great things I have been fortunate to have in my life.
My upbringing; the great friends I had; my teacher who transformed my life; the friend who brought me to a new world of great opportunity; my boss who helped me to move to the career I always wanted; my dreams and their fulfilments. I listed all the items I could remember.
Then I started doing what I did about my extra time added to my life. I started to give time consciously to remember them every day – during the day. I look at them. I see that they have enriched my life beyond what I could ask for. Doing this daily has been a great source of satisfaction. Remembering these has helped me to enjoy and cherish these things. They have helped me to develop a deep contentment with my own life.
I feel that all my running after goals or looking for new experiences is but a mental habit. Our needs and our distractions will always be there. Giving time to celebrating all the great things we have accomplished or have been blessed with daily – helps us not to get sucked by these worldly and materialistic goals. The pandemic helped me to learn that we need to be deliberate and practice consistently to be established in true contentment.
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