My Favorite Place Is With You
What is my favorite place? With you! Since you were born, there is no place more peaceful than the one you form in my body.
Since I’m your mother my favorite place is with you. Because my happiness is this and much more. For me, life is made up of all these details beside you, good, memorable, infinite, precious. Everyone has a place in my heart.
Today, we are going to reflect a little on emotional spaces, also known as “emotional places”. It is nothing less than what we call our “favorite place” which is so important to our lives.
Emotional spaces occupy a privileged place in our hearts. Motherhood offers us the possibility to increase this space and expand our affective capacity without limits as we had never imagined before.
With that, we can certainly experience many ways to be happy.
Many claim that we have forgotten how to be happy. But, thank God, whoever has the honor of becoming a mother knows that we have not forgotten.
Being a mother brings a lot of happiness to our lives and the gratitude for it is impossible to be explained in words. But you know what I’m talking about.
The magic ingredient couldn’t be simpler: having the people we love by our side. Happiness consists in knowing what and who is important in our lives.
Knowing how to remember that the best place in the world is the skin of our children, the flesh of our flesh. There are also the caresses and the satisfaction of being well with ourselves.
Happiness is an option, not a goal
Probably in your daily life you have met more than once with these friends or co-workers who say they are tired of everything, that children are a lot of work, that they are increasingly demanding, intransigent and that they do not have time to relax or enjoy a moment of peace and silence.
Every time you find yourself in these situations or in the middle of these conversations, it’s worth keeping a simple reflection in mind:
We can choose to belong to the grievance team, who complains about not being able to sleep, who is obsessed because their baby is not like others who are more advanced. For example, we may be the ones complaining that our child has not yet learned to read or that he is too dependent.
Or we can choose to be happy, build on what we have and focus on improving things so we can live better.
In the face of adversity, it is best to appreciate what we have. We must understand that creation is not easy, but since we have decided to create life and bring it into the world, it takes a little effort on our part.
In the end, happiness is 80% a matter of attitude and 20% of knowing how to maintain it, of knowing how to look at things with the heart.
you my everything
People occupy places in the lives of others and we are not talking about physical spaces, but emotional ones. To understand it better, just use a simple example.
It is very likely that you have a family member with whom you have a good relationship. Maybe it’s a cousin, an uncle or even someone closer.
If this bond is painful or traumatic, the emotional space it will occupy in your life will undoubtedly be negative. It may even be that you have chosen to “disinfect” this figure in your heart, to erase it.
However, those who make us rich, who care for us, love us, drive us and provide us with happiness, no doubt occupy gigantic spaces in our hearts and minds.
Thank you, my love, for occupying my entire being
A curious thing that only happens to children is that they arrive in the world with all the space guaranteed.
Almost without knowing how, they occupy every place in us, fill every bit of our mind and every hollow of our heart. And day by day this space grows and grows. It’s a unique experience.
Other people, on the contrary, such as our partners or our friends, gained these emotional spaces little by little thanks to their attitudes, good deeds and this magical connection that happens few times in life.
This kind of connection is also a product of circumstances and how things arise. However, our children conquered every terrain of our affections immediately. Simply by existing.
you are my happiness and always will be
Happiness is a matter of attitude, we already know that. We also know that to be happy we don’t need big things.
Often, just one day in which harmony, calm and complicity with others provide us with this unparalleled well-being is often enough.
To be happy, we must learn to tolerate and understand the disappointments, sorrows and challenges that life often poses for us.
With that, we want to say something very simple: happy families are those that together know how to face adversity and those moments that sometimes break our balance.
When we overcome difficulties, for example, when we manage to return home with our premature baby, we feel happy.
We feel that we have left behind a difficulty and that now everything is going to get better, for the good of all. We feel that this great joy invades us because we were strong and that it was necessary to learn from this process.
If you ask me what my favorite place is, I’ll say it’s where we are together, where we can grow and walk hand in hand. That, my love, is happiness.
