Appreciate what u got!

If I look at all the things I want or have yet to achieve in life - it is a very great mountain! Places I want to visit, the pay rise I need, the house I need, the success I need.

And, I believe no matter how successful I am that mountain will always the same size! Even if I had the billion pound business empire I would still be looking to expand and dominate rivals. That tree in the view from my 10 million pound mansion would be in just the wrong place...

Looking the other way I already have a very great deal! The number of people who can boast a computer to write a blog are already few. What I have is already a huge mountain to most of the world.

And, I believe that no matter what I lose I would still have what is a great mountain to some others.

We are always in the middle, whether we win or lose we can always look up to make us look small, and look down to make us look big.

Properly looking down we find that we are even higher up than we ever imagined. Suppose I look around at my possessions and I look in the mirror and try to measure everything that I have. The list may include my own body, my heart, brain, eyes, nose. Losing any of these would be far more catastrophic than anything else.

Suppose I come to be looking in the mirror at my eyes. I marvel at their intricate blue iris and crystal clear dark pupil. A sudden change of light and the iris adjusts imperceptably. It is a wonderful thing - I never really appreciated it. That I have.

Then I realise that more amazing than the eye itself is that I have vision. That I can stand there in the mirror and look at my eye. More amazing still is that I have thought and judgement and I can discern the shape and nature of my eye and know it. More amzing still are the emotions and feels that I have, of wonder, of happiness at having it. More amazing still is that I am aware of the eye, of the thoughts and judgements, of the emotions, of the whole world and everything that is in it.

Before even using my senses to turn the world into its sights and sound, smells and tastes, its feeling and emotion I have awareness. It is the most subtle thing, something we can't discern directly, only know indirectly because how the world be there otherwise? It is the light in the world around us right now.

I have all this before I even wake up in the morning. It is a mountain on which I stand so great I cannot even see the bottom. Looking down makes the mountain I wanted to climb up seem very small. Even seem like no challenge.

Indeed being so far up already, why go any further? It is simply because I tend to look up toward what is expected of me, toward what I have not got, toward how other people are different from me and what I can get to be like them. I don't need to. Everything is ok just as it is.