Contentment… Ahhh… What an interesting word. Most of us know what it means at least in theory. And many of us might even say that we are content at least some of the time. But goodness! If I listen to myself complain on any given day, it’s pretty embarrassing. I have always considered myself a fairly optimistic person, but I’m ashamed to admit that I complain far more than a person who claims to be optimistic ought to do. So what is contentment? And how does one go about learning it? Dictionaries usually say contentment is a state of happiness or satisfaction, but my favorite definition included the idea of ease of mind. I love that since the opposite of ease of mind is exactly what is going on when I worry, stress, and complain. I’d call it tense of mind maybe.
The idea of this blog oh so long ago was that things don’t always work out the way we plan them. But that doesn’t mean we can’t live a full satisfied and content life. The Comfortable Life. To be honest, I’m still learning how to do that. My life has continued to change since my last post a million years ago (2 years actually, but it feels a million). I am now working part time in a job that I enjoy. My girls are in middle school (yikes!) And I am excited about carving out time for creative things that I am passionate about. I want to continue to learn contentment in my life and stop all the other negative noise from my mind and my mouth.
