Recently, I have been taking the time to write down 3-4 things almost each evening in a gratitude journal. On this Sunday evening, I find myself looking back at what I have particularly enjoyed over the weekend.
And the moments which I remember the most are: complicity and laughter with my husband, affectionate exchanges with my son, seeing the mountains I admire from another angle and making progress on my skis (it is not easy to start skiing when you are an adult!!).
In fact simple things.
And I try, day after day, to appreciate these simple things.
Not to get annoyed by a behaviour, to see what it teaches me about myself.
Be able to remember and be grateful for these moments that, the next moment, are only in my memory.
If I experience them in an unmindful way, what will I have left of them? Then is it really to live them?
This year, I wish us all to be a little more in the present moment every day and to appreciate the precious moments we live.