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There are people who are always smiling. Always in a good mood. And even if something happens to them, they will definitely say, “So what! The main thing is that everyone is alive!” Usually people like that are just over 45. More and more often, deep into retirement.
I used to think their behavior was frivolous or unnatural. After all, if it looks bad on its face, how can it be good! It turns out it can.
I’m the kind of person for whom getting up on the wrong foot over the years is not an accident, but a well-established fact. Always on edge, nagging myself and regretting missed opportunities.
But my mom is a completely different thing! She is just the kind of person who squints sweetly at the smell of morning coffee, knows how to enjoy soggy feet, and never misses an opportunity to laugh at herself. And one day, when the same situation she and I were in caused us to have two opposing reactions, I pestered her with the question, “How can you always be in joy? How do you do it?”
My mother answered me very briefly, but her answer finally put the very missing check in my head. She put it this way: “We are in our thoughts all the time, either in the past or in the future. When we think of the past, we regret what we didn’t do. Thinking about the future, we twitch about things that haven’t even happened yet. But we very rarely live in the NOW. And yet our life is in this moment.”
I look at my mom’s friends, watching my grandfather. They all live as if tomorrow might not come, as if their days no longer seem so long. It’s not a state where you’re trying to make the most of the moment. No. It’s a completely different perception. It is as if they are slowing down time and observing life.
They’re starting to finally see it, rather than trying to slip between good and bad moods, good luck and mistakes. And in this very process they somehow naturally manage to see joy in every moment. When time becomes precious, what a pity to miss even one day.
“If you can do something now, do it, ” Mom added, smiling. – But if you can’t, look how pretty your cup is!”
