Simple Things

November 16th, 2008 at 08:02am

I am happy to report that we have finally started the drying out process here in Koh Samui and we have finally seen the sun again! It is so great to see and feel the warmth of the sun after so many days of gray skies and rain!!

But even bigger news for me is that I plan to get a hot water heater installed in my shower this week!! Yeah!! Yes, that is right – I have been living with cold water showers for over 2 years now! Could you imagine?? Well I should say that most days here when it is 30C you don’t really mind having a cold shower and that is usually for about 10 months of the year. It’s the other 2 months that can be rather unpleasant.

The amazing thing is that it hasn’t really bothered me at all. In fact the very simplicity of my life here is what makes me love it so much. I have very few possessions and the ones that I do have I really appreciate. For example, I have a refrigerator, a juicer and a blender and with that I feel that my culinary needs are complete. I don’t even have a kitchen but it doesn’t worry me!! I have a bicycle which is rusty and has no gears but someone left it here and it is perfect for jetting into town and back. I love it! I have an old desk with 2 drawers that have no frame so you pull them out and there is nothing but who cares! I love the desk just to have a place to sit at my computer. I have a hard wire internet connection and with that life is truly complete, isn’t that right! I have a desk lamp which someone gave me – it works but is a bit wobbly…but how I love using it when I just want some soft lighting! I also have an extra fan which someone else gave me – and since I don’t have air conditioning, that extra fan has saved my life in very hot spells.

My point in outlining all of that is to show you how little you really need in order to feel fulfilled and grateful. In fact, you probably never even stop to appreciate the hot water in your shower every day do you? Yet alone all the other wonderful means of abundance you have all around you?? Sometimes in life we become so focused on everything we still don’t have or what we think we still need, and we forget to stop and feel the gratitude for everything we already have. I am quite sure that I feel more ‘complete’ and at ‘one’ with myself and my life than many of you out there who have 10 or 20 times the material wealth that I have.

So stop, look around you, see and feel the abundance in your own life, and take a moment to say “I am so grateful for……’

Entry Filed under: Koh Samui,South,Thailand