Enjoying a Beautiful Day

March 22nd, 2007 by Edmund Snyder · 5 Comments

Sometimes it’s fun just to relax and enjoy the spectacular weather. Currently it’s 75 and Fair in Norfolk, VA. I’ve been lazing on the front porch for the last few hours and figured I could put the time to good use.

My 17-month-old, Conrad, is playing with toys and his “baba” which is what he calls a ball. I dragged the laptop out and the Wacom tablet and doodled a little illustration to go with this entry. There won’t be anything political about this entry. There won’t be anything about the traffic or pedestrians in the street. It’s too nice out to be thinking about such things at all. Sometimes it’s nice just to take a little time, put away all worries and cares, and enjoy life. I strongly recommend it.

Lazing on a Lawnchair with the Laptop Gif Maybe you’ve heard it said before that there are no bad days–any where you wake up and find you are still able to enjoy life are good. For the most part, I hold to that theory. Even so there is a difference between a good day and a great day. But a great day is a state of mind and if you try hard enough, you can train your mind to make them all great. This is where I’m going to hand out assignments–leave a note to tell one way (or more) how you could train your mind to make each day great. Don’t worry, there aren’t going to be any grades. If that task is too daunting, just explain a way that you could make this day great.

I’ll get the ball rolling:

I’m outside. Just getting out of the house made the day much better. Looking around, I see green grass. I see and hear birds. School kids are playing with a ball up the street. An older guy is passing by on a bicycle. I see my healthy and happy son playing–my opinion is that happy kids are what life is all about. And that’s an interesting thing to consider: kids can almost always find a way to make their days great. So maybe emulating kids would be a good technique.

Okay, so now it’s your turn. Usually anyone who posts a comment has to go through an approval process with their first comment. I’m shutting that off and making this a free-for-all (I still have a spam filter, though) so don’t be shy.

Tags: Ed's Articles · Miscellaneous

5 responses so far ↓

1 efflorescent // Mar 22, 2007 at 3:56 pm

Despite the fact that I am feeling like being isolated, I put effort in and got all dressed up to go out to an office party that a friend of mine won. Getting together with friends that I don’t see nearly enough will make this a great day. It also made it a great day that it started out with strong coffee and cake for breakfast. How can a day go wrong that starts with caffeine and sugar?
2 m2m514 // Mar 22, 2007 at 4:28 pm

To make each day great I try to start with a cup of coffee… okay, not true, but I don’t need anything as I’m probably one of the few who always feel that each day is a good day. Although I agree, now with a child, everyday is better then it used to be because I know each day I am the reason for my child and that makes me very happy! So training my brain was never needed!
3 Ed Snyder // Mar 22, 2007 at 4:36 pm

m2m514,

Something I should have said, if I’d thought about it that is, is that it seems like we’re born with a brain that is trained to make every day good. It seems like we have an innate ability to enjoy life. It’s through years of reprogramming by supposed failures and cynics who, in turn, became that way due to supposed failures and other cynics that we lose that natural ability. People who haven’t lost that ability have either not been exposed to those cynics or have somehow managed to stay above the fray. Good for you.
4 Alena S // Mar 22, 2007 at 6:55 pm

Well I suppose I would start off seeing the sunrise. Then I would go and make sure that everything was cleaned up and get breakfast together. Then I would spend time with my hubby and son. If it is nice go to a park, of course our dog would have to come with. On other days go to a museum or any where that we could come up with. It need not be an all day event, because it is nice to just sit and talk and wind down a long day. Of course it is nice to see the sunset too. But above all for me for to have a great day I need to know the ones I love are happy. The rest would just be icing.
5 Dana // Mar 28, 2007 at 11:05 am

I once watched a television program on Africa. I can’t remember what it was or what it was about…just that it had nothing to do with what I got out of it.

Somewhere in the show, it showed some kids in the background. Dressed in what looked like the discard pile from one of our children’s homes and sorting through garbage, it at first appeared to be another example of abject poverty.

But they were looking for wire and were twisting it into cars which they then proceeded to drive around.

It looked like fun, and I realized how capable children are of turning anything into a toy. I wanted to go out and get a bunch of wire to see if we could figure out how to make one!