Isn’t it wonderful that we can think and create the world we want with our minds alone? I posted yesterday about how I want my April to be—I wrote some affirmations: My April is overflowing with miracles. I am happy. I am kind. I am wealthy. I turn dirt into gold. I liked that post so much that I recorded it and replayed it many times. Hearing my own voice reading those affirmations gives me a weird sense of calmness, as if I am slowly rewiring something deep inside me.
I have this monkey mind—very active, never quiet—my lifelong companion. Once it decides to create stories, it goes on and on, weaving endless narratives from past regrets or future worries. I usually can’t tame it; all I can do is wait for it to tire itself out. But last night, when the shoulds, woulds, and what ifs started flooding in, I played my recording.
It was strange, almost surreal—like I was reminding myself, This is April! You asked for a miracle, and you shall receive it! And miraculously, I calmed down. Wow.
That’s when I realized—today is a miracle.
Maybe social media has made miracles seem like something grand and rare—traveling to exotic places #wanderlust, capturing the perfect Instagram moment #amazing, witnessing something science can’t explain #magical. So now, I am rebranding it, a miracle is the fact that I am still here, alive for another day. A miracle is being able to write on this blog, accompanied by a huge mug of hot tea, feeling calm—like I have a worry-proof mind, even if just for this moment. That is a miracle.
The fact that I have a mind that, even after so much worry, still finds its way back to calm?, that I get another chance to exist, to write, to feel—that is a miracle.
So my dearest readers, shall we rebrand the Miracle from now on? Miracles are waiting to be noticed by us. They are everywhere.
Cheers,
Karin Sabrina
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Hi Karin 🙂
I found your blog via a search I did which returned this post. I usually check out the “about” page of any new blog I visit.
I find it ironic the way your about page and this post contrast with each other. Your about page depicts you as a static person, plain and obvious. Yet in this post, you describe how you can change any time that you want to.
Also here, you also describe how miraculous it is that you exist. Let me expand upon that a little bit more. Another miracle is that I exist. Another one is that we are both existing at the same time. Another one is that the atoms which many believe to be what makes us what we are have probably existed for billions of years already. And another one is that the English language also exists (actually, I think everyone speaks different languages at different times and in different contexts, but I don’t want overcomplicate it here) — or it kind of exists, between us. We use it to try to communicate ideas. Sometimes it works fine, other times it can seem cumbersome. It’s a technology as much as it’s a natural phenomenon. Whatever.
It’s also nice that WP exists, that many things and technologies exist. We can play with them, work with them, do stuff with them … as long as we still exist!
Of course at some point, stuff changes, and then the stuff that exists either changes or maybe it no longer exists, and that’s why some scientists wonder why anything at all exists (instead of nothing existing).
🙂 Norbert
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Hi Norbert,
Wow, I didn’t expect to get a comment that takes me from my blog post to the existence of atoms and the nature of language, but here we are! 🙂 I appreciate the thought you put into this—it’s not every day that someone reads both my post and my “About” page so closely. I’ll make it more cheeky… I mean.. alive 😛
You’ve got me thinking now… Maybe everything really is just a chain of tiny miracles, including this conversation happening right now. Glad we both exist at the same time to have it! in English and it’s not even my first language. 😀
Thanks for dropping by and leaving such an engaging comment! Looking forward to more of these thought spirals. 😀
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