Did you ever wonder why dogs are (almost) always in a good mood? They need so little to give back so much! No new dress, no new pair of shoes, no fancy house or other possessions. Dogs are great teachers of joy.
And the nature itself. Trees, birds, grass, horses. They never complain about rainy, cloudy or a too cold day. They 'know' how to enjoy each moment. They are fully immersed in NOW, simply enjoying their presence. Unconditionally. No matter what happens on the outside surface (excluding the extreme cases of course).
A weekend spent with my friends and their cheerful dogs in a house located in a middle of a forest made me wonder. WHEN and WHY did I lose this ability to simply enjoy my Being. Unconditionally. When did I start to believe that to feel simple joy of life I need all these things, places and people manifesting certain behaviour towards me?
It is a beautiful sense of freedom to realise that joy of life is more 'and inside than an outside job', paraphrasing William Arthur Ward. All the external has an inevitable expiry date after all. It is helpful to remember that particularly at the times when one does not possess much. Just look at the dogs and the nature. Having nothing they are an authentic manifest of a poor joy of life. I strongly believe that, if we are only ready, they can help us to reconnect with this essential truth.
I still love a new dress and a new pair of shoes, but my relation to fashion (as we know it nowadays) had evolved and changed a lot throughout the past years. I am now 'more interested in clothes than in fashion' itself, quoting Lidewij Edelkoort. Standing against poor quality, disposable, short expiry date clothing I am convinced to promote new quality of fashion I will call the Clothes.
PS. Yes, I know it would be good to have a fresh set of photos shot!
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