A simple way to live, with that easily satisfied mindset, that’s what makes an ordinary life, fulfilling, every single, day! Translated…
Woke up at around five this morn, I’d turned on the computer to the exams I was working on, found that I was, limited by the original questions, I’d come to the understanding of breaking through to my self, and, used what I’d lectured on in class, to set up the exams, how I loved this sort of, wakeup call that’s very enlightening to me!
At six, I’d climbed up to the third floor to wash my clothes by hand first, then, tossed it into the wash, climbed back down to the first floor, to make the breakfasts. I’d already thought about breakfast last night at supper, took out the foods from the fridge, heated up the leftovers, plated the foods, a sunny side up, prepared the fruits, make my cup of latte, all of these moves, done in, one breath, smooth flowing. Seeing how the small plates took up my breakfast table, I’d felt, satisfied.
Not long afterwards, my husband who’s dressed up for work came downstairs for breakfast. As he saw me, he’d opened his arms wide, hugged me, and thanked me for looking after him as he was temporarily hard of hearing because he had water that gone into his ears. That was, a rare, act of intimacy, I’d not quite gotten used to it yet, but, his actions touched me.
As I saw him off to work, I’d gone back up the third floor to hang out the laundry, put the pillows out under the sun, then, washed the summer sheets, quilts, then, headed over to the front door, swept off the fallen leaves, watered the plants, and sprayed the water onto the leaves to wash away the dusts and dirt that covered them. Lifted my head, I saw my youngest sister-in-law’s papaya was red, I’d reminded her that she should pluck it. She’d told me, that there’s not that many people in her home, that I’m more than welcome to it. And so, I went in, took out a stool, leaned on the fences, and, plucked two papayas from the trees, I was filled with joys and gratitude then.
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photo from online
The nearby temple seemed to be putting on some sort of a celebration, the people are getting loud over there, the clinking of the pots and pans, the burning of the gas stove over there sounded loud, and the scent of the foods came, filling the air with that scent of bliss. Suddenly, I’d thought, “it’d been too long since I’d gone to a banquet like so, we’re all troubled by MERS-CoV here!”
As I’d hung the sheets, the pillow cases, the quilts out to dry, I’d steeped up a pot of floral tea, with a piece of cake from my eldest sister-in-law, then, I got the time, to sit myself down, to write this passage of what’s happened thus far in my day: for our entire lives, we’d busied ourselves, and sometimes, we need, that free time to enjoy the ordinariness of, life too.
And so, this, is the daily happening in this woman’s life, and, it is, too ordinary, and yet, it’s, quite special to her, because she is grateful for everything she’d been given in her life, and, if you’re grateful, and feel blessed about things in your life, you can find the simple happiness, in your own, day to day living too!
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