Cheese with a sprinkle of gratitude

Have you ever felt puissant? 

No, not physically or in the vague sense of the ordinary. Let me rephrase.

Have you ever felt powerful in your sense of self (or mind)?

I have, and it all started when I mentally overtime, penned down some non- negotiables in life and devised some propositions that have been a part of my life henceforth. It is not like my propositions can never change, they can and should.

To do this, you have to first discern what matters to you. Most of us get cold feet here at step 1 because we are both unsure and uncertain about this. If an affront on your self respect makes you discomfited (as it should) voila! self respect matters to you. If you get up from your most comfortable position to enrich your omelette with cheese, cheese matters you or perhaps food does. We get the point. Now finally, you truly assess these 'matters' and whether and why they find a room within you.

I know it seems like a mammoth task but when you do the first step, the rest happens naturally as a concatenation. 

Now the next thing is that you have to be receptive to the idea of change and the prospect of leaving certain spaces and circles that do not align with your 'matters to me' bundle. Naturally, this will bring discomfort at first, but over time, the significance of your core values will outweigh this unease. Now you implement the changes and BOOM!

Of course not everyone will have to change something to feel powerful. Sometimes upon arriving at the box-step you realise that you already function like that. You just had to acknowledge it to feel powerful and in control of oneself. Change doesn't imply that the stakeholders in the previous room were inherently 'bad'. Rather, it means that either the room didn't fit you or maybe you didn't fit the room. Which is absolutely okay!(go back to the last paragraph if you don't agree to the fact that it's okay)

Now that you feel so powerful and empowered lets deviate a little. 

at the risk of sounding cliché, taking a moment to appreciate where you are in life is extremely important- it grounds you. Sometimes all that matters is that in this moment, I want to voluntarily smile and be grateful for all things in life. I used to write a gratitude journal in my pre teens and eventually stopped because finding 3 things I'm grateful for ever-day, seemed utopian. It is the honest, simple moments of joy in life that call for gratitude- when you feel butterflies, when you laugh on a dumb joke or listen to a cringey jolly song and it is when you look in the mirror and say that you were proud of what you did, when you did., I failed to recognise them truly until I naturally began feeling them and you will also, only realise them naturally. I used to be adrift when seeking fancy stuff to write like -" i got 50/50 on my math test!" Yes, you can be grateful for that, but those things don’t happen every day. So instead, write something like “I solved 20 math problems today” and find joy in those moments.

So if Navyaa had to write a gratitude journal today, I am sure it would look like this:

-wow I could breathe and eat food today.

-I finally wrote a blog after June 2024. 

-omg 'i love cheese on my omelete!'

from happily yours,

Navyaa