Self-realization

I’m grateful for the life I have lived. May it have been good and bad. My journey has been a lesson filled with blessings. When I think back on the losses I’ve experienced they’d only served as a crucial lesson. There’s no point of stuffing myself with regret and anger when I can just live with peace by moving forward.

For the first time in my life, I looked up above the night sky admiring the beauty of the stars and moon. I teared up a bit knowing how beautiful the smallest things can be.

I have been blind to the blessings of the world. Too cynical in my thinking when I have everything I need to be happy. I think of my family and friends often as I’m away from them. How I go back to old photos of them, and smile to myself of the fortune of joy they bring to me.

I long for the day of leaving this earth but today’s not that day. No. I still must face the days with goodness and gratitude. There are far more lessons of being a good man needed to be reached. I’m not that good man yet. For my old self needs cleansing and a greater appreciation for life. Gratitude along with being kind is a task worth mastering.