Notice the Good Times

Transcript

Sometimes we have certain habits we need to service in the moment. They kinda feel good and give us some momentary release like when we complain about the weather or how slow the public transport is.

The truth is in the long run those things are actually draining for us and it’s actually better for us to notice the blessings that we do have. To notice the good times and sometimes and a lot of the time good times are all around us and we don’t even notice.

So in a previous episode I described this prayer. I might call it good times grace. And it goes like this:

“It’s not every day we will eat. It’s not every day we will eat well. It’s not every day that we will eat in such fine company. Today we eat, today we eat well, and today we eat in fine company. And I am grateful. Amen”

So when we say grace we can take a moment to appreciate the good things we do have. The people in front of us, the people around us.

I remember the first time I got into Guadalajara Mexico. I entered the airport and there was a fellow and his wife there. He turned around and saw me and said “Do you need help?”

He could tell that I was a foreigner and that I didn’t know where I was going so he took five minutes of his time to explain to me where to go and how to get there. How to take a taxi and everything. It made my life so much easier.

So I said to him “Muchisimas Gracias” Thank you so much. And he was like taken aback, or he didn’t expect that level of gratitude. He was a bit unnerved by it or something.

It’s amazing when strangers go out of their way to help you and having seen that a few times I try to replicate that myself for other people even though sometimes it seems that people aren’t ready to accept that level of help it’s worthwhile to offer it.

A few years ago 2016, I was on a bus from here in Acapulco to Mexico en route to Guadalajara and around 3am the bus straight crashed into the back of a truck.

I was like “He didn’t even brake” the driver must have fallen asleep. My head smashed forward…I was wearing a seat belt but only a lap one so my head smashed forward into the monitor that the seat had in front of me.

I was bleeding so much and I thought “Oh, I don’t know if my head is going to survive.” I didn’t know if I had a giant crack in my skull. I don’t even know.

I thought “Hmm, this could be it as I’m soaking up the blood with my shirt and applying pressure with a travel pillow.”

I remember a Mexican Federal police came, the last people I expected to be my heroes. But indeed they were and they broke open the window and we all jumped out onto the patrol car and sat there and waited on the side of the road for the paramedic.

So I’m grateful to the Mexican Federal Police and the paramedics helped me. I will say they didn’t do a while lot to assure me that I wasn’t going to die.

I was probably calm enough they thought they didn’t have to. The man kept asking me three or four times “Do you have insurance?”

I told him “No”. He’s like “are you sure?” I don’t know why he never pointed out to me that every bus ticket has insurance included.

Anyway I was grateful to those paramedics who brought me to the hospital there near Cuernavaca and the surgeon stitched me up. It was like 16 stitches I think on the top of my head. It was pretty rough.

And I was crying there on that table and maybe she thought I was in pain, I don’t know but I said “I am so grateful that there are people like you doing this kind of thing. People to help me out.”

I’m grateful I had that experience. And I’m grateful I don’t have to live that experience every day.

So it’s funny. Notice the good times. Sometimes you don’t know which times are the good times in the moment. Maybe they’re all good times. Seeing people there helping me and even after they stitched me up people in the hospital came up to me with wonderful Mexican hospitality and they said “If there’s anything I can do to help please let me know.”

There was a pastor there from Guerrero and he gave me a lift and another passenger Alfredo to the bus station so we could move on to Mexico City.

Notice the good times and notice the good in every time. If you look around even when bad things are happening you’ll probably find some good in it. You might even find a lot of good in it.

Notice the good times. Thanks for reading. Thanks for thinking beautifully. Thanks for staying grateful and expanding your consciousness, opening yourself to the possibilities of gratitude. I’ll talk to you soon.