Five Lemons

I got a text that said, "I'm out of lemons 😩"

I knew their pain.

A few days prior, this friend had come over with a cup of sliced lemons and asked for some hot water.

"I keep telling myself I'm going to drink lemon water every day."

"Me too! Can we be lemon water accountability buddies?"

Drinking lemon water in the morning is something I've tried to do on the regular but it's never stuck. At the time we had this conversation, I had a bunch of lemons in my fruit bowl that had been sitting there for a week.

So for the past few days, this friend and I have texted each other in the morning to say that we're drinking our lemon water. Drinking lemon water before my coffee has started to become a habit I throughly enjoy.

When my friend realized at the end of the night that they were out of lemons, I could feel the sadness. I admitted that I still had 5.

They replied, "Damn. Accept abundance."

This got me thinking about the abundance that was all around me.

At that moment, I was finishing off lentils I had in my fridge that the same friend had given me earlier in the week. Free food. I reflected back on my day which included a new friend buying me coffee out-of-the-blue. I had gotten an incredible compliment from a client who said their session was the "best massage ever" and gave me a generous tip. I even had someone ask me out on a date, which delighted me.

Then I just kept going. I thought about the house I live in. The cat that I adore and found one day stuck in an abandoned house the year before. The place where I work that has everything I need, including a Thai massage mat that I didn't have to buy when I started learning this technique. I can walk to coffee, good food, the river from there. The community is amazing. Through this community I've found amazing friends, an awesome dentist, an esthetician, a personal trainer, tons of clients.

Honestly, I got high thinking about all the abundance in my life. It was hard to get to sleep because I was just so excited to be alive.

All from having 5 lemons.

I've been training my brain to think like this. Sure, when problems arise, I figure out how to solve them, I'm not just complacent about things that do need to change, but I can't let a fortunate situation slip my conscious awareness. I try to acknowledge them all, big and small.

What abundance can you find in your life today and everyday?