Unwrapped Presents

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mindfulness, new year, seize the day, thankful for little things

Is it better not seeing you?

Is it better not knowing where you were?

Is it better not to be glancing and looking at you in the eye?

Is it better not knowing your name?

Is it better thinking everything’s still going to be the same?

What does it mean, another year beginning ?

Different result, what to gain?

Is it better just trusting

Destiny to name its game?

It is, sometimes, true that ignorance is bliss.

What if I didn’t know what I missed?

Dreaming about it, yet

I may have had it already for breakfast or

lunch or dinner, for that matter!

Do I need to count to ten every time I take a deep breath?

Truly, what’s being said here is be thankful we still have each other.

A roof on our heads, a car to take us anywhere we like.

Thankful we are alive and not dead,

Food to eat and for all that, we should be psyched!

To take a few minutes each day to consider

Blessings of everyday given on one another.

It’s the little things that matter, the mundane

things and instances that reveal itself, come

unwrapped yet give so much joy when realised

and accepted.

Changing the empty toilet roll, picking up

laundry, or just a “How was your day?” could

go far.

It’s not too much to ask for, come to think about it.

But it’ll do wonders to your mind and

perspective, I bet if you just have to believe,

though I know some of you consider this

“preaching” a pet peeve.

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No can do

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diary writing, procrastination, seize the day

Today’s Daily Prompt asks:

We all procrastinate. Website, magazine, knitting project, TV show, something else — what’s your favorite procrastination destination?

Procrastinate? Me? Nope. No can do.

I prioritize.

If things can be done today, then it shall be done.

Even when I was younger, like 8, 9 years old, with small chores on the weekends, like sweeping the front yard, watering the plants, I do not procrastinate.

Instead, I sleep early. So I wake up early. All other family members are still fast asleep.
All calm and everything fresh with the morning dew, I do my chores.

Then after my Dad had made breakfast, I am free to do my things.

Besides playing outside with the kids in our neighborhood, mainly, I can be found writing in my diary. Everyday since someone gave me a Rainbow Brite notebook on my 8th birthday, I’d write on it.

Now, almost 30 years later, I don’t write in my diary that often (not everyday) anymore. Family, raising kids, work, and everything else has taken over (including this blog -haha!).

But writing has always and will be my journey — and destination.