Simple pleasures

I chatted with a friend of mine yesterday, for most of the day. I say chatted although realistically we were not chatting at all, we text messaged; Back and forth, over the course of the entire day with the last message being around 8:30pm. It's not actually something I do a great deal to be honest. I mean lengthy text message communications like that, however, it was nice to chat like that for a change. It allowed me to get onto other tasks around the house and provided some respite from my tasks, humour and interest along the way. In short, I enjoyed it and the day was kind of perfect all around.

It made me think about a quote I read a little while ago that touched on the fact that we don't really need anything extreme or particularly special to happen to create a great day; The words they used were to have a perfect enough day.

Many people push hard in pursuit of that great day, the perfect day, going to great effort to construct it when sometimes just accepting and enjoying what is actually going on in your day could be perfect enough, just like my day on Sunday. Nothing special or extreme happened. There was nothing remarkable about it at all and yet here I am on Monday recalling how enjoyable it was. How perfect it was or should I say how perfect enough it was.

Perfection is something that most, if any, will never attain; Can anyone truly say they have reached perfection? I don't know, maybe, but probably not. I'm sure someone may make themselves welcome to school me on it though. For me though I think not. Please feel free to tell me in the comments how you have attained perfection; It could be interesting reading. However, for the mere-mortals amongst us, like me, what we can do is accept and enjoy what's immediately around us and in so doing know that on the days we do this that is perfect enough.

I'm an introverted type of person really and so spending time by myself or with a very few others, seems normal; In fact I feel out of place in bigger groups. Excepting and enjoying extremely simple things comes naturally. This doesn't mean I can enjoy other things, just that I don't always need something special or extreme to happen to feel like I have had a great day. We're all different though. That's what makes us interesting.