“What does it mean to live a good life?”

February 2, 2020 (2/2/22)

Wednesday

This day has been busy for me, I was busy facing all my duties in the real world. Time just passes by and because of the nonstop chores, here and there, I am just surprised to see myself in the bedroom ready for a rest.

Tiring, exhausting yet no regrets.

While I was scrolling in my phone, I remember this site ‘the random generator’ on which could help writers, especially me who's always lacking topics to write about. I came across this on sis @Jeaneth ’s article the last time.

Due to curiosity, I tried to generate a random question and it gave me this question that hit me hard, made me think and reflect at the moment.

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What does it mean to live a good life in my opinion?

Well, this may seem an easy question but for me, it gave me an unexplainable feeling right after I read it.

It tickles me but at the same time, it made me face the reality of my life currently.

Good life, I know most of us wanted to live a good life. A life that we are stress-free could do anything we want, could go to places without being restricted. If defining the good, we could say and choose all the goods that we perceive.

Yet for me, having a good life is having just like a simple life and that's just my opinion. While I was reflecting on the question itself, I tried to picture out what does a good life is or how a good life portrays for me.

While I was imagining things, I saw myself and my family, my husband, and our kids on the same roof. We are happily sharing giggles, eating our favorite meals. We are in a shelter that we can call our own home, nobody's there except us. Oh! Heaven, that's living a good life for me already.

If you still didn't know, we are currently living in a house given by my father yet, due to some happenings, we can't call this house ours anymore because of someone's suggestion, we became an extended family at the moment and I couldn't see an end to it.

That's the first thing to enter my mind as I read this question, we can't have a good life without having a house that we can call our home. We can't make moves and decisions easily because we need to know someone's voice to it and that's what I hate being in this situation.

This caused me a lot of stress but as time passes by, I started to just accept it and move on and make a move or a plan that one day, I will get out of this.

And before, I kept on hearing from other people that they want to be a millionaire to live a good life. They want a mansion for themselves or their family, they want to spoil themselves with the things that they yearn for. It's not bad to wish for those things, why not, right?

I know, sometimes luxurious things could give us satisfaction, however, living in luxury is not on my list for having a good life. I am not saying that I don't want to be rich, I want to so that's why I save. Yet my reasons are different, just so as you and the other people out there. We all have our reasons why we grind, why we hustle.

Yet for me, thinking that I could eat nutritious complete meals a day, sleep a complete routine without any worries, wear nice and neat clothes, I consider them a good life already because I know there are other people out there that have no roof to protect them, a bed to sleep on, and couldn't eat a nice meal in a day or weeks.

But of course, they also have stories to tell and I don't want to just speculate why they are put in such situations.

Living a good life is not about ourselves only, and for me, I could see that I am also living a good life on how's my relationship with other people around me. The way they know me, and what I have impacted them. And upon reflecting, I recognized that I am on good terms with the people around me and with the people I met.

So wherever I will go, whoever I met, even the people who hurt me, I know I have the confidence to face them all with my chin up. I know deep inside of me that I never do wrong to anyone.

And as I go deeper, I acknowledged what matters too is how you live your life at the moment, we are all given life and we always have the choice and the chance to make it good or bad through our actions and decisions.

We are all given a chance each day, and each day it is up to us if we wanted to make a change and have a purpose.

And upon checking, I may not be in the life I wished for yet, I am already living a good life, it has flaws, lapses yet not that worst, no need to compare it to others, just appreciation does it all.

Written by: @eommaZel ✍🏻🥀