I have been feeling quite peaceful today. Birds are tweeting, and the grey sky is sitting nicely above the backs of houses and cranes and a knocked down tree as the wind blows in through my bedroom window..
This made me think of contentment...I was going to say I am "overcome" with it but then I thought: is it something you are overcome with, does it blanket over all of your other emotions leaving you feeling at ease for that moment..or is it something beneath your other emotions. All of your feelings and distressing thoughts, an endless mound of rubble, and if you manage to dig past to the bottom you will disover the smooth surface of contentment?
Or it may just be down to interpretation of your situation. It might not be underneath the inner you or something that lays over you. Some people may endlessly feel content because they never think to want anything else other than what life has given them and just take things as they come.
Arghh, just as I finished this post it started hailing and now there are no clouds in the sky.
2 comments:
I think the second image of contentedness is nicest. It's also the most hopeful: we can always achieve it with a bit of clearing up. I like that.
Perhaps contentedness, like any feeling, can only exist with something to compare it to - you can't be content without sometimes being not content. Happiness cannot exist without sadness; good cannot exist without bad.
Yes, that's a very good point.
Thanks for the comment. :]
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