Thank you for existing. For meeting you and being a part of my life. Thank you for being who you are, a unique being just like me. Thank you for the moments we shared together. For the moments when we laughed and the ones we cried, for the moments we looked into each other’s eyes, for the moments when we achieved something great or when things didn’t turn out the way we wanted them to. Thank you for the dreams we made together, for the past, for the present and for the future.”
I asked myself rhetorically one of the days when I last said such words. I realized that a long time ago. In fact, only a few times and I thought it was not often enough. We are too used to the routine of the day, to our habits, too preoccupied with our work and what we have to do, we are preoccupied with ourselves, to tick off events and places, we think it is natural to meet people on our way, without realizing that, all of this represents a chance to gradually discover the world we live in.
As we take one step towards others, the world appears more beautiful and much safer. We cannot take real steps towards those around us hidden under protective armor, for fear of being hurt, trying to protect our own wounds, out of pride or arrogance. Pride and arrogance are, I think, the heaviest armor we put on ourselves, to protect our vulnerable self, and hardly give it up while waiting for others to take a step towards us.
We can step toward each other confident in the moment that brought us together and had its purpose. “No leaf falls by chance in a certain place,” an oriental master once said. No meeting is accidental, no matter how trivial it may seem, and the moments shared together are an accumulation of energies that bring us joy or anguish, the latter, to be integrated into our structures. The more we get used to a certain state, no matter how bad it seems to us, the more it means that we have integrated it and, accepting it, in time we no longer have the acute perception of that evil. The moment we have accepted the state as it is, we have the power to transform it into a satisfying state.
Maybe the questions I’ve been asking are related to the dozens of thank you comments I get on my social media posts. From this point of view, and many others, social networks open immense perspectives, bringing people from all corners of the world closer together, making them more attentive and empathetic. But it’s wonderful that these thanks can also be found in everyday life, which we share with family, with people close to us, with friends, with those at work, because each one contributes to our present wellness and to our future one, even if we are not aware of this fact.
We can make our lives as uplifting as the gratitude we feel for the people who fill our lives, the gratitude we express in words and deeds.
“Thank you for meeting you/for being a part of my life.” A good start for the thanks we can bring to others, for the awareness that opens us up more and more and increases our capacity for expression, implicitly bringing us closer to our own dreams.
