Abundance

Yeah, I know, it's one of those new agey catch-words that are so over used they become meaningless. But this is a kind of companion piece to the last post, which was Anticipation. Last time, I wrote about how much fun it is anticipating events and cups of tea. Today, I'm going to write about how much fun it should be when what you anticipate comes to pass and turns out to be what you'd hoped for. When your Anticipation blossoms into Abundance.
There are some odd responses to this phenomenon. One is to negate it. "Oh," you think. "It's really not so great that I (won $500 in the lottery, it could have been $500,000) (got accepted to Williams College, it could have been Yale) (had a story published in The Berkshire Review, it could have been The New Yorker). Another response is the knee-jerk reaction that I sometimes fall prey to: "It must have been some kind of fluke. It can't really be happening. I'll find out tomorrow it was all a mistake."
This is crazy thinking. Accept your abundance. Enjoy it. Who else will, if you won't? And if it does turn out to be a mistake, at least you will have had an hour, a day, a week of pleasure appreciating the abundance in your life.
So, go for it. Start learning to see and appreciate Abundance. Make a list of five things that have made you feel abundant lately. Study them. Then write how you really feel about them. Let yourself go with this one. Write down as well all the possible great outcomes you can foresee that might result from your abundance. Imagine your mother, husband, child telling you how great you are. Imagine what you will wear when you accept your prize, or meet with your new editor. Write it, draw it. Do some daydreaming and revel in it.