The things that cost you nothing

When you reflect on the life around you sometimes you almost despair of what we inflict on each other. I don’t mean the painful and cruel things, but the life style and wonderful way of living! We have our transport system – we just love traffic jams – airport lounges – railway station on a winters day – tossing around on the ocean. Then there are the beauticians, treatment for both men and women, slapping mud on your face and you pay them. All those cosmetics we simply must have, the joy of the gymnasium. We must get drunk –why? Our youngsters must have their weekly night binging! And it all costs a lot of money.

If you wonder is anything joyful then the answer is yes.

When I wake of a morning the first thing I do is cuddle up to my wife, and it costs nothing, but it’s wonderful. When I get up I love to go into the garden and when in England make a cup of tea and go and sit by the water pond and listen to the silence of the garden. Yes you can hear silence and it costs nothing. Then the dawn chorus starts, yes I like to get up early, there are so many birds that sing in that chorus and they give it the works, and it costs nothing. Somebody tells a joke, a good joke and you laugh; it costs nothing to laugh or smile. As you walk along a street and you catch somebody’s eye inadvertently, it costs nothing to smile, or say good day, and it probably makes them feel good. The fortunate ones on this planet have fresh pure water to our homes, and what a wonderful drink is fresh, cool water on a summer’s day.

If you awoke this morning feeling grumpy, then reflect. You are here and there is plenty to enjoy that cost nothing. Go for a walk, early when you can look around you, and study the hedgerows and the gardens as you walk along. Watch a couple of blackbirds searching for worms and insects on a neighbour’s lawn. If you are sitting in your garden then contemplate on everything good that has happened to you lately.

So you haven’t got a garden. There are parks and public woodlands all around you, the exercise walking there should be taken at a leisurely pace. No rush, it will wait for your arrival. It’s been snowing! Before the traffic gets on the road it can be a fairyland, crunching through the snow costs nothing.

So sit back and think of what you have that costs nothing, just sitting back costs nothing.

It is a wonderful world, it’s what we make of it that can spoil it.