we whittle our days away... rasping incessantly as time falls away in days and hours and minutes and seconds. moment upon moment laid to waste only to be reborn in the next instant... but there are moments in time that seem to hold us pleasantly hostage, a smile, a sound, a song, a long serene second of bliss handed to you accidentally by a stranger. and it is these moments that we must treasure if we are going to achieve what for lack of a better word we call happiness. so i'd like to take amoment to ask you to close your eyes, after having read this of course, and to think back. try to recall the kindest most heartwarming thing anyone has ever said to you. remember it. in your mind, regardless of what may or may not have come to pass after, think on that person with kindness for at least a moment. learn to control your grudges, if not to forsake them, then to hold them at bay for a moment or two so that they do not tarnish all of your life with a putrid fear. now think back, wander backwards in your mind and try to remember, what was the kindest most heartwarming thing you'v ever said to or done for another person? don't focus on whether or not they returned the favour, don't remember if they were as warmed by it as you were. focus only on the feelings that inspired you to say or do what you said or did, and how it must have felt to let those things fly.
it is a short exercise and can easily be done, in the shower, on the train, in any spare moment you have, to make any or every day that one bit more pleasant.
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