A mindfulmonday thought – Happily Ever After –

…and they all lived happily ever after. The End. That’s the way the movies always ended when I was a kid. Or, that was the way I thought the movies always ended when I was a kid and that’s the way I thought life was supposed to go. There was a point in life where the hero discovers the secret formula to life and lives happily ever after.

Why is it then, that I’m still searching for the formula and the happily ever after part remains elusive? Could it be that the fantasy that Hollywood has sold us is unrealistic or unattainable? Or, perhaps it’s the fact that happily ever after is a place that can’t be accessed by plane or boat or car – maybe, it’s a state of mind. Maybe I’ve been living in happily ever after my entire life and didn’t even know it. What if discovering happily ever after simply involved breathing? BREATHING. Just take a breath. Listen to the inhale. Feel yourself holding the breath, then listen to the exhale. That point in between the inhale and the exhale, that stillness, is the place where eternity and infinity live. The pause between assimilation and elimination is perfection. It’s the intersection of heaven and earth and it’s called Happily Ever After. Enjoy.