Offering him a brand new perspective to interpret things, helped him to find the things he is grateful for in ordinary daily life…translated…
The power outage came that day, I'd transferred my course to the small garden out front temporarily, a few pupils were, focusing on sketch the still life of the potted plants, the children in the children's arts class were assigned to class period in the commons with the lighting from the sun.
In the glow of the sunset light, which was different from the lighting of the regular classroom lighting, I was surprised to find, that the instructors, the pupils all had, delicate features, like the painted persons of Caravaggio. Suddenly, it'd felt like we were, in that painting with the, glows of the holy light, basked in that atmosphere of harmony, of joy and peace.
I'd shared this with a parent of my student, she was really intrigued, told, "do all of you, art instructors, always view things with such aestheticism?", her eyes glowed of envy and longing.
I'd started up this art studio for over a decade now, although I don't make that much money, but, being surrounded by a lot of students young and old who loved art, this is, an enormous sort of a wealth to me. Maybe, it's ill that we compared what is blissful to us, but this made me think about my younger brother who works for the prison systems, how hard he'd needed to work every single day, my job is, much, much simpler than his.
The words of the sculptor, Rodan said, "there's not a lacking of beauty in this world, but the eyes who can, discover these, beauties", this is touching to me. In the busyness of daily lives, so long as we slow our own paces down, it's not hard to find, that there are, many beautiful things, wonderful people around us, and that happiness is always, close, by.
I'm so grateful for the power outage that day, it'd given me the chance to slow back down, to use an alternative way to experience, to know how much I'd been, blessed, with.
This is on how we lacked appreciation for what we already have, and always want what we don't, and this individual's awakening came at the precise moment that he needed it, and, he's now, more appreciative of the smaller things in his life, and everything became a blessing to him, because of the wakeup call he got from the power outage that day.
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