Cherish

Today's post is on the topic of cherish.

I'd known cherish from a dear friend and all my friends and family have helped me to understand it. To learn cherish when you are losing something is easy, but to know it in the passing of everyday calls for some attention to the people and things around you. If you are going home from work or school today, having lunch, going for a jog/game of football, drinking and sharing your problems with someone, look into the eyes of the person and thank them. There are millions of reasons why they might be at the same place and same time doing the same thing as you, but what is also same is that somehow, both/this group of you are together at the moment. Whatever have caused it? I don't know, you don't know. Both might be working in the same company, assigned to the same task, but why, why the both you? Came together and made each other's day more bearable, happier; even if it's more frustrating, more irritating, they certainly are company. What more can you ask for in life? No matter what, you won't, can't hate that person, because there surely isn't really anything in the world that calls for great hate; resentment, yes. And so, the times spent together should be cherished. All the more so, if they are great friends, loved ones. Of the billions of people in the world, the one that appears in front of you at the moment is that person. Cherish him/her. Not because you may lose him/her in the next moment, if you cherish him/her for that reason, then you are only appreciating him/her because you may be sad the next moment and so not want to regret later.
Please cherish because of the very miracle and fact that you have been brought together for/in this moment. It is an unexplainable magic, people might call fate or fortune. Cherish. Cherish people who have crossed your life as a companion, friend, love ones- and appreciate and love them as one.

Today, I cherish the miracle that you'd come to read this blog.

Cherish is related to volunteerism. The kid whom you read to, mentors, the fellow volunteers, how in the word did all these people come to congregate? They could have been anybody else, or there could be nobody at all. Suddenly, there's no one around you doing the same thing you do, speaking the same subject you speak of, but no, they are just right there around you. And so we continue to cherish the moment somehow created to serve.