Special

Are birthdays special? 

Some consider it very special and some treat it like any other day. Well it is like any another day. But there is an excitement around it. Birthdays/anniversaries/functions/get-togethers - all these occasions are oppurtunities to talk/meet our close friends and family. In a world where each one of us are busy doing our day to day activities, occasions may be needed to make us realize how blessed we actually are to have even one person as a friend or family. 

I agree that we all want to be independent, feel independent, not depend on others either physically or emotionally to feel good. But we are social animals. When we talk to a close friend/family, or when we meet a close friend/family there is a happy energy. 

That was exactly how one of my special days went by. It was a day full of happy positive energy! 

Now the reason for this post is to wonder if we can treat most of the days in our life special. I am just using the word special here because it will bring our attention to it. Basically everyday being a happy positive energy day! Well it is upto each one of us. We just need to make a choice consciously and tell ourselves how we want to treat each day. If we are brutally honest, every day can be a crazy day as life can be filled with ups and downs every single day, if not every moment 😊 So it is just a choice each one of us make about how we want to live everyday. Of course few days will be easier to make this choice and few days extremely hard. 

My brother said something this morning that I want to quote - our mind is like a radio station, filled with many thoughts - sad/happy/positive/negative/intelligent/nonsense/.... - but we have the ability to choose which thoughts we would like to tune into. Most of the time we put so much energy on the wrong thought by either thinking about it or talking about it that it becomes our whole personality. And most of the times we may be doing this without realizing it. I felt that it was such a powerful line of thought - to give more energy to the good thoughts, and giving zero energy to the negative ones! 

There is no harm in trying this right? Because once we do this and if we are able to see a new world opening up for ourselves, its worth everything!