The past several weeks have been very stressful as you can see with my previous posts on decision-making, relationships, etc. I also have been running for various testing to hopefully solve a medical problem. Being a nurse, I am not the best patient by any stretch. Issues at work, bigger issues at home, health issues, the state of the world, the list goes on and on. Some issues will be eventually resolved, while others have evolved that I knew eventually would and I will deal with them. There are moments of peace and quiet in my mind, and at other times, the wheels keep on spinning and spinning until I am worn out emotionally. All this, having been said, I am a person who has always seen the glass as half full rather than half empty. When feeling as if I need a boost, or some type of uplifting message with meaning, we all turn to something for comfort. I have to have comfort, not chaos and turmoil, and I long for those still, precious moments that surface like bubbles in quality champagne, waiting to explode.
How do you define comfort? One person's idea of comfort may be another person's misery. This idea of feeling at peace, serene and even joyful can be so elusive at times. Some of our comforts can be in the form of compulsions or addictions: food, alcohol, gambling, internet pornography, tobacco, shopping, etc. Some of us may turn within for comfort, and find it in prayer, meditation, quiet time, or God. Other comforts may be of the intangible variety such as music, gardening, running, exercising, sex, reading, quilting, cooking, etc.
My comforts vary with my moods. Among the things that I find comforting are, of course, the ocean, listening to music, solitude, scrapbooking, and my favorite, blogging! It helps me to write things down and deal with them, see in them in written form, it stimulates the cells in my brain and body and puts me in high gear.
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