Appreciate each moment of your life

Appreciation is one of the main keys to happiness and contentment. When you appreciate someone, a situation, or an object, it appreciates in value. You increase the amount of enjoyment you get from it.

The Dalai Lama mentions how valuable and sacred it is to be living this life as human beings. It really doesn’t matter if this is the only life you’ll lead, or you have had previous ones and will have future lives. This is the only life you have in the here and now.

This instant of time, the moment is the only one which is real. All the past and future moments exist only in your imagination. So you \might as well appreciate this moment, this instant.

This reminds me of a scene in Homer’s "The Odyssey " where the hero Odysseus has gone to the underworld and talks to Achilles who is living in the Greek equivalent of heaven. He says, "…. For you Achilles, Death should have lost his sting."

The hero replies, "…. spare me your praise of Death. Put me on earth again, and I would rather be a serf in the house of some landless man, with enough for himself to live on, than be the king of all these dead…."

When I first read that I was moved by Homer’s wisdom and how sacred being incarnate (living in a body) is. Whenever, I may be down or fedup (say I’m stuck in a traffic jam) I appreciate this moment in time from point of view of not being alive (either before birth or after death). I remeber the words of Achilles and know how wonderful it is to be alive and well.

I don’t know how I would feel if I were hungry, sick, imprisond for my political or religious beliefs or simply in a prison for a crime I had nevr committed. But persuming you do have some kind of shelter, food, clothing – in the word of Homer "with enough for himself to live on" – understand how lucky you are to be alive , to feel your breath, to hear the singing of birds, to taste the thirst quenching water….

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