Something Happened at the Mall Today

Choose to walk out your front door today and deliberately decide that you're going to look for love happening to others instead of watching for negative things which may or may not happen to you. Let's face it, many of us do tend to walk around expecting to come in contact with negative people, places and things. But it simply doesn't have to be that way. It's not a healthy premise for us to walk through our day always on the verge of getting put off or being slighted by someone or something.

Watch for love happening everywhere you go, no matter how short or insignificant your adventure might seem, always let the explorer in you come out and play. Love is always taking place somewhere around us. We just have to be aware or conscious of it, lovingly locked into noticing it, not stuck in our heads with our thoughts—and not only that, when we are lovingly looking for the good in every situation, we are being ever-present and fully in the moment. When we live in the moment our stresses and worries seem to fall away, and whether we realize it or not, we're creating a new and healthy existence for ourselves which was not there before—at least until we start our negative thinking again.

I saw a young mother stop in at the food court today as I was having coffee. She was pushing a small child in a stroller. The little one seemed to be in a foul mood. Mom walked briskly over to an unoccupied table, fumbled hurriedly through her travel bag and found a bottle of milk and handed it to her little tot. She then pulled out a container of what appeared to be pudding, and just as quickly located a spoon. The baby smiled and hungrily gobbled each spoonful of pudding as fast as momma could put it into its mouth. And then they were gone. What a wonderful sight to see. Love. Any action which makes the lives of others just a little more bearable.

The negative individual would put a negative spin on this by thinking, "You'd think she'd feed her child before she left home. What kind of mother is she?"

Not long afterwards, a young teenage couple happened by and they were playfully twirling one another around as if they were on roller blades or ice skates. They didn't come off as being disrespectful or brash in anyway, in fact, they seemed to add to the atmosphere in the mall, and brought some much needed lightness and excitement to the swift flow of customer traffic now building up to lunch hour.

The negative entity would again think less of this innocent experience, "The nerve of these two. No respect for anyone. Someone should teach them a lesson."

Both occurrences were beautiful and they certainly elevated my happy genes and hormones to a much more comfortable level. I was essentially freed from my radical thinking, which had I not taken notice of these two innocent happenings, I may have drifted into stressful thoughts about exactly what it was I had to do today and what I should've done up until this point in my day.

Living in the moment is loving in the moment. And anytime we are loving, we are changing our natures from a level of being in a state of uneasiness to a level of being at peace with ourselves.

I also saw what I figured to be elderly sisters unsuspectingly meeting up with one another at that same food court. The sister who was sitting down got up and excitedly moved her way around the table and met her sister halfway. They laughed and hugged each other, and held that position for a count of four and it was lovely to see. Love. Any action which makes the lives of others just a tiny bit fuller.

The negative person would find some reason to complain about even this chance meeting, "Couldn't they do this someplace else. I mean c'mon I'm eating here."

All of the people in this story had no idea I was taking in their beautiful random acts of love and kindness and storing it within me. By watching out for love happening around me, instead of filling my thoughts full of worry, I'm sure I was able to lower my blood pressure significantly. Simply by living in the now and deliberately watching out for love happening around me. It really is about living in the moment or being present in the now. Don't worry about what was or what will be, if you think about it, the now you're living is what you will remember at a later time, so make this moment something worth remembering. And days, weeks, months, maybe even years from now, we may look upon these moments and draw upon them in our times of need.

Needless to say I had a wonderful time at the mall today!

by Bernie BeeJay Tangie