The Perfect Moment

Picture this. 

You wake up one morning, the sun is peaking through the curtains. You look over and your partner is sleeping soundly next to you. You feel a warmth, an all rounded happiness which spreads throughout your whole body. You are so excited about the day ahead that you don’t take a second thought as you jump out of bed. 

You sing in the shower, you dance around as you make your breakfast and morning coffee. You stand at your kitchen window and peer out into the garden. You can’t help but smile to yourself. You think about the life you have made. The world seems better somehow. The sun shines brighter, the birds sing louder. Your life is exactly what you always dreamed it would be. Is there any better feeling than this? 

You look around at your farm house kitchen with its perfect beams and undeniable character. Your wine rack filled with french Bordeaux’s and the finest champagnes. Your tastes emanating through every crevasse of the stone walls. No one could deny you this moment, this feeling of complete and utter blissfulness.

Your phone bleeps and breaks you from your revelry. A message pops up on screen and reads 

“We have everything under control here boss, you can relax.” 

Yes you are the boss. You have people running your business. Your ideas. Your success. Your legacy. You can go into work whenever you feel like it. But you love your job so much that you are eager to get to it. In fact it doesn’t feel like work at all. 

You take the chance to continue the moment you was enjoying so much. You peer back outside and watch as the birds come to feed on the table you and your partner built together. Chirping away happily. It really was a delightful morning. Not a cloud to be seen in the deep blue sky. It was a new day. A day like no other it would seem. But to you, it was a day of endless possibilities, and the sentiment of it made your skin tingle with glee. 

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Listen.. I’m not going to say where this short piece came from because your guess is as good as mine, and sometimes my brain just pours it out. However, this is an image that I often think about when I wake up in the morning. It’s a place I want to be in at some point in my life. An absolute perfect moment where I can stand and reflect and be exactly where I want to be. 

A moment of pure joy. 

We all have our own idea of the perfect moment, or perfect day. Some might be quite similar to this, some completely different. But I find that it’s so good for me to get this out, to have that goal stored somewhere so I never forget it. 

I feel that this works for me, and I’m hoping it may work for you too. When I was in my darkest days or even now when I have bad days, I picture something like this. I tell myself that that’s where I’m going to be one day. It helps get me through the hours and the days. It gives me something to hold onto, and it lights a pathway for me. A pathway that sees me get through the other side. 

I encourage you to try this. When you feel that enormous struggle to even get out of bed. When you feel like there is no hope. Create that perfect moment, that moment where you feel nothing but joy and peace. It might just be the key you need, to unlock the other parts of your brain, and escape the prison of your thoughts.  

I also encourage you to realise that you are part of someone else’s perfect moment. Always remember that.