I was going over how wonderful it would be if we could celebrate life all the time the way babies do.
Other than when they are hungry, tired, frightened, messy etc., they are simply and purely happy, without any need for any intellectual, emotional or physical reason or event to tie it to. They are just happy in the moment and celebrate each moment of life.
I’m really intrigued by this. They don’t have the logical, analytical, decision making capacity yet to attach being happy or celebrating to events or memories, the way we do later in life as adults. They don’t want or need a reason to be happy or celebrate. They just do it.
I’ve also noticed that many of the spiritual masters, of many different disciplines, past and present have this same ability to simply live now in the moment, happy and celebrating life, without wanting or needing any special reason to do it. In many ways, in their demeanor, they even seem to manifest the innocence and wonderment babies have. They don’t want or need a reason to be happy or celebrate. They just do it.
For me, the way I was raised by family, educated and indoctrinated into my society and culture, I have always wanted and needed a reason to celebrate and be happy. And the reason had to be significant, or I would feel I had no right to celebrate. I know I am not alone in this.
As coaches we can really honor and respect our clients and ourselves by making the effort to be happy and celebrate always, the small things and the big things and the nothings. Especially the nothings.
To be happy and celebrate life in the moment without any reason, without any attachment, without any justification, without any judgment, to just do it.
I’m reminded again of the quote, “To live life through the eyes of a child, with the wisdom of an adult”.
Bruce Paye
