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The Quality of a Simple Life

Every morning my postman will deliver our mail every day at the same time. He’s always on time and never late. It’s like he’s got his own routine that he adheres to and always meets his deadlines.

This morning as I was on my way out going for a morning walk, we bumped into each other and he passed me our mail. As I went out on my walk, I was left thinking about the quality of ones life.

I have high hopes and big dreams for my future. Some of the things I’d like to include in my experience are activities such as; white water rafting, canoeing, camping, bungee jumping & parachuting! I’d really love to be able to complete these activities and I will complete them as I’ve set out my intention.

Coming back to my postman … I started thinking about his life and imagining what sort of things he gets up to. Maybe he is interested in stamps? Perhaps he enjoys fixing bicycles? Or maybe he just likes to read a lot of books!

Some of the things that I was imagining for him, weren’t exactly exciting me. In fact I remember thinking to myself, “I’m glad I don’t have that life”. And it was at that moment that it hit me.

No one else can determine the amount of joy one receives in life except the receiver.

The activities that I get up to on a day-to-day basis probably don’t interest my postman and he may be thinking to himself “I’m glad I don’t have that life” as well! I don’t know how much joy he receives from the activities he gets up to, and I certainly cannot judge the quality of his experience here.

Everyone is different and that creates huge amounts of contrast. It’s that contrast that makes the world interesting and such a fun place to be! If we all liked the same thing and got along so great, it would be impossible to birth new ideas. New ideas are constantly born from the contrast we experience on a day-to-day basis. And that truly is a great thing.

You don’t have to include those things you don’t want into your experience. You turn your attention away from them.

Jesus said, “turn the other cheek”. And what I think he meant by that was, look away from what you don’t want and turn your attention to something you do want.

If you have any comments about this article or would like to share the activities that you want to experience in your life, please leave me a comment by clicking on the Comments button at the top of this post.