Wishcasting Wednesday: What Simple Pleasures Do You Wish To Enjoy?

At 2 am this morning I found myself sitting in front of the laptop, going over the day.  Tired as I was, my eyelids began to droop and I felt myself float away.  The day that had just finished was not an easy one.  There were things on my mind and a weight in my heart that I wanted so badly to go away.  So I sat there, telling the pain to stop, asking for a short reprieve.  Then it came.

A belly laugh that first began as a tiny, tiny tickle in the center of my body slowly built inside me, pushing upward past my stomach, up my chest  and through my heart.  It came without warning, surprising me like a mischievous child hiding behind a door that I had thought was closed.  The sweet, pure laughter spilled out like a clear stream of cool water and it gurgled and bubbled outward, startling me with the power of the mirth it brought.  And I sat there – heavy heart no longer heavy, shaking all at once with delightful glee and panic thinking that I had at last gone mad.  And again without warning something said to me: “You hear that? That is your soul.  That is what you are made of.  That is who you are.” 

I sat there giggling thinking to myself that yes, this is me.  This is who I am, really.  I am Happiness.  How could I forget that?  How sweet it was to remember.  How comforting to know that all I had to do was go to my center and I would find me, Happiness, waiting. 

I went to sleep thinking that this is where I will go to when I need to find beauty.  When I need to be at peace.  When I need to find my balance.  When I need to remind myself that life is not so bad.  This is where I will go when I simply want to enjoy the little pleasures that I have kept inside me, saving them for grey-clouded days like this.  How simple yet how true.

Laughter – that is my simple pleasure.  It will always be there when I reach for it.