Introduction to how to enjoy life
Children are the happiest human beings on this Earth. They have the ability to enjoy life. They enjoy life by eating ice cream, without any concern about getting fat or extra calories. They enjoy life by watching the clouds in the sky, without any concept of time passing. They enjoy life by climbing trees, without thinking of falling down.
Children know how to enjoy life. When you ask them how to enjoy life, they will look blank. They probably ask you to play catching with them.
In fact, you can re-learn how to enjoy life by watching children play. You can re-learn how to enjoy life by watching everything with a different perspective. You can re-learn how to enjoy life by throwing all your worries away when you watch the clouds floating in the sky.
I write this blog post to remind myself, and to remind you, that how to enjoy life is a simple venture. I hope that life is as enjoyable to you, as it is for me. Everyday is a God blessed day, and we can enjoy life to the fullest.
No matter how rich or how poor you are financially, learning how to enjoy life is as important to you as to the others. The richest man is not rich if he does not know how to enjoy life.
Material wealthy should enhance the enjoyment of life. In reality, those living in richer countries do not know how to enjoy life, and are miserable the moment they open their eyes in the morning.
Ironically, those in poorer countries, with no TV, no computer, no beautiful house, no education, no high paying jobs are the ones who know how to enjoy life. They spend their time caring for each other, talking to each other, and enjoy life with each other.
Learning how to enjoy life is essential to happiness. You can be rich and happy. You can be poor and happy. You can enjoy life with your material wealth. You can enjoy life even if you are penniless. Learning how to enjoy life is a skill that nobody can take away from you.
There are a few subheadings in this post. The first part is how to enjoy life in its simplest form. The second part is how to enjoy life without TV.
How to enjoy life in its simplest form
The answer to how to enjoy life starts by learning to be happy. Children are happy. They find happiness in very simple thing, such as drinking a glass of juice. They find happiness in watching the ants crawling here and there. They know how to enjoy life from watching the surroundings.
When they watch adults talking, they are enjoying life too. They may not know what you are talking about, but they enjoy seeing your mouth open and close. It is part of enjoying life to observe things around us. You can learn how to enjoy life with the same observation skill.
You can learn to appreciate the cup of coffee in the morning. Learn to enjoy life from all the different things that you take for granted.
Can you enjoy your coffee, without thinking about work and traffic jam? Can you breathe in the aroma of coffee? Can you sip your coffee, and allow the taste to stay longer? Learn to enjoy life. Learn to enjoy life the moment you wake up.
Learn to enjoy life by telling yourself that it is a blessing to see another day. Learn to enjoy life by looking at your image in the mirror, and smiling at yourself. You can learn how to enjoy life simply by changing the mindset towards life.
Even if you are jobless now, and with bills to pay, you can still enjoy life. You have abilities to learn how to enjoy life. You can learn to enjoy life by learning to appreciate the water you drink, and the air you breathe. You can learn how to enjoy life by taking deep breath. You can learn how to enjoy life by tasting the ice lemonade. You can learn how to enjoy life by eating the cold watermelon on a hot summer day.
Learning how to enjoy life means you can focus on giving happiness to those around you. Even if you cannot help them physically or financially, you can give them a bright and happy smile. You can brighten their days, and make them enjoy the simple pleasure of life.
If you can let yourself relax, and learn how to enjoy life, you can play with kids. Learn to see things from the eyes of the little ones. You can learn how to enjoy life from them. To kids, even the fans moving round and round is interesting. They enjoy life by watching the fans moving, the birds flying, the insects in the grass and everything around them.
Once you master the art of enjoying the simplest form of life, you will find that even the horrible traffic jam is quite enjoyable. You can learn how to enjoy life by watching the bored expression on the faces of the drivers. Some drivers put on frustrated expression. Some drivers show hopeless expression. It is very interesting to watch people’s expressions. It is part of enjoying life. You will enjoy life when you watch people, even if you do not enjoy massive traffic jam.
How to enjoy life without TV
To most people, the answer to the question of how to enjoy life is to watch humorous or exciting TV program.
Actually, without TV, life is more enjoyable. You can learn how to enjoy life without TV. You do not want to become a slave of TV program. You can learn how to enjoy life, and save money as well without watching TV.
You can join a local club or involve in the community. You will find that helping others is part of enjoying life. You will find that listening to the life stories of others is a far more interesting activity than watching TV.
You know that the plots and sub-plots in the drama series are not real, even though you enjoy watching them. However, the life experiences of the people around you are real. You can learn how to enjoy life through the life experiences of others. They will share with you how to enjoy life, and how to overcome difficulties.
You may find that gossiping is such a great way to enjoy life. Gossiping without evil intent is enjoyable. You can learn so much about others from the gossiping with your neighbors.
In fact, you can learn how to enjoy life by listening to all the town gossips. You will find yourself taking more interests in your life and the lives of others through mingling with them.
Many youngsters find the answer to how to enjoy life through playing computer games. When they are in school, and they are not scoring well, they feel depressed and unhappy. But, when they are playing games, they experienced hero-worship from the lower ranking players. Play computer games is an answer to how to enjoy life. Knowing that you can create the character, and destroy the character, and that you live in a make-believe world is part of enjoying life.
You can learn how to enjoy life in the game. In game, you are powerful, able to cast magic, and kill monsters, you will enjoy life in game doing all the things that you cannot do in real life.
Do find those free games to play if you do not want to pay for the subscriptions of popular games. Learn how to enjoy life means using your imagination in computer game.
You can learn how to enjoy life by keeping a pet and playing with your pet. You can learn how to enjoy life by watching your pet plays. Assuming that you have a dog, you can enjoy life by taking a walk after dinner with your dog.
Your pet knows how to enjoy life without anyone teaching them. The hamsters enjoy running in the wheel, without thinking what the whole purpose of running aimlessly round and round is. They just engrossed in enjoying life. They know that how to enjoy life means to enjoy the activities. They do not that everything they do must make money.
The fishes swimming in the pond know how to enjoy life. They swim leisurely to and fro. They do not need to worry about money either. They do not even worry about the next meal. They eat and swim. You can learn how to enjoy life by watching the fish swimming. You will learn that enjoy life comes naturally to animals who do not need to worry about financial matters.
Learning how to enjoy life requires us to give up the thoughts of making money, and paying bills for the time being. Just enjoy the walk, enjoy the breeze, and enjoy the dog walking by your side. Enjoy life by observing nature around you. You can learn how to enjoy life by taking an evening walk after dinner.
After you learn how to enjoy life without TV, you will find that you have less desire to spend money on products that you do not need. This is due to the fact that, you have less exposure to the advertisements in the TV. You do not have desire to spend money when nobody reminds you to buy this or that.
Learning how to enjoy life is simple. Learning how to enjoy life requires you to see the neighborhood that you live in. Learning how to enjoy life without spending money is possible.
Conclusion to how to enjoy life
We are living creatures on Earth. Since we cannot control our birth, and cannot choose the form of life that we possess, we can learn to enjoy life to the fullest.
We can enjoy the simplest thing in life every day. We can learn how to enjoy life the moment we open our eyes. We can learn how to enjoy life when we are stuck in traffic jam.
We can enjoy life no matter how rich or poor we are. We can enjoy life no matter where we stay. Enjoying life needs a change of mindset. Instead of worrying about our jobs, our bills, our mortgages, our children and all other worries, you can shut all the worries out, and simply enjoy your life.
How to enjoy life is a very important topic. Since we were young once, and we knew how to enjoy life when we were young, we can pick up the skill and enjoy life to the fullest.
I will continue to search for ways on how to enjoy life. I will continue to write posts about how to enjoy life.
Sunday, June 14, 2009
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Hi, how are you? Good post, Scheng. :-) I hope there's good weather in Singapore today. Near me in KL, its drizzling although a day later than expected. Rain is good coz the weather is less hot.
ReplyDeleteGreat post. Its true, happiness is around us, there is no need to search, it's there already. Cheers
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