When I hear ‘The perfect picture’, the image that comes to my mind is I being in a place where I have a small and cute house surrounded by trees. I am playing with my family on our front yard. Everyone is smiling, laughing and having fun.

We all have in our head that we are going to make it, to the day where all our worries, pain will be gone. We paint the perfect picture in our head for the future where we are going to be eternally happy. While it is a positive trait to be optimistic and look forward to living happily, in the same time we are being unhappy in now and waiting for the day where a certain event is going to make us complete, is not.

To those people who are living happily now, it is a blessing what you have and I wish you keep on living the same. I wish never ending happiness to all of you. But some of us, we have been cultured to look at the perfect picture as our way out of the misery and that’s where we went wrong.

I remember seeing a quote ‘Having fun with the process, not the result’. We as human tend to attach ourselves with various things. ‘Attachment’ to our culture, our identity, our significant relationships with others, ultimately to the perfect picture is something we have been taught since our childhood.

The whole schooling system where the student with good grades, the best in their class is praised, whereas a student with poor grade has to go through many humiliations in his/her school and home. I personally have suffered from these humiliation (result of not being a successful student). We learn that we are going to be praised, accepted when we achieve something significant and if we do not we would not be appreciated. This has made us unconsciously attach to the result.

Right now, I want you to look out of a window, look as further as you can. What do you see? In front of me I see a big apartment, further I can see the sky. Now keep looking as further as you can and without moving your eyes say out loud what’s right next to you. You might not be able to answer that.

We tend to so the same thing with our perfect picture. It is far away from us, somewhere in the future. We keep looking at it all the time and forget what is here in right now.

The world is moving very fast and we want our share in it by moving as fast as we can to our perfect picture. Forget about the things that are right next to us, sometimes we even forget that we breath. Yes, breathing is an involuntary process and we do not have to think to breath. But how often do we stop and feel the air that is going through our nostrils?

I want you to take a break right now. Breathe with me, feel it going in through your nose into your lungs.

For a moment, stay with me and your breath here. Stop thinking about your perfect picture. Look around yourself. Look at everything you see around you right now. Look at them with a sense of gratitude, love, respect. Be thankful.

How do you feel after that? I feel good. I feel more connected and less lost.

Once in a while we should stop and be happy with we have right now. Enjoy the place where we are! Enjoy the process!

If we keep on practicing, that once in a while will become our way of living. After all, we all are what we practice. So what are you?

If you feel like leave a comment answering how often do you stop and appreciate what you have right now? If not no worries!

Wish you all an amazing life!!