DELIGHT

Effortlessness is delight.  And inherent in that feeling of delight is a sense of contentment.  Contentment is a feeling that comes from being acknowledged, being heard, being thought important enough to delight.  Delight is voracious in that we never tire of it, we can never get enough of it.  And that’s as it should be.

Right now, our society is not interested in delight, it’s interested in the most common of common denominators.  It’s interested in the quick and dirty buck to be made.  It’s interested in perpetuating the impression of lack - it’s a false impression since there’s more of everything we could possibly want.  It’s interested in running a race to the bottom of mediocrity, in the “you’re lucky to be getting ____ so shut up and sit in a corner.”(insert item or behaviour or service that’s broken, that’s unsatisfying, that’s just wrong),  And we obey.  We sit in our corners and nurse our indignation, our victimhood and mourn that craving for delight.

Here’s the thing.  We don’t have to wait for someone to delight us.  No.  The fastest way to get delight, is to give it.  Delight can be given in random acts of kindness without need for acknowledgement.  It can be cultivated in mindfulness and by gratitude.  By  giving our anxious need for control a rest. 

It starts with thinking for ourselves, releasing the struggle and cultivating effortlessness.