Today is my first day off work for a long time. I still have to get up early to study, but when I’m not working, I have more time to relax. I always try not to work on Sundays because I want to spend as much time with my family as possible, but when I get requests for lessons from students and parents who want to learn English, I tend to accept them, even if it’s only in the morning.
I wake up in the morning and do some light stretching on my bed. I exhale and let the breath come into my body, which has become a little tight during sleep. It feels as if oxygen is flowing into my body, brain and heart. Afterwards, I fill the kettle with water and heat it up. Then I pour the water into my favourite mug and drink it slowly. I used to drink ice water in the morning when it was hot, but even in the heat of summer, when I drink warm white water in the morning, I feel warmth flowing through my body and I feel relaxed inside. Afterwards, some days I do yoga, and when the weather is mild, I go for a walk. I find it calms my body and my mind to just breathe, and I can feel the seasons changing as I go out for a walk.
Yesterday evening, as I walked home from work, I looked up at the sky on the wet road after a long day of rain, and saw that the dark clouds that had covered the whole sky were beginning to clear, and the moon was peeking through the thin clouds like a soft veil. The moon was peeking out from the thin, softly veiled clouds, and I could hear the autumn insects and the buzzing of the sooty woodpecker. I don’t have as many opportunities to go out and travel as I did some years ago, but sometimes it’s important to be in nature and to feel the change of seasons on my way to and from work.
This morning I’m going to make a cup of coffee and read a book at the chair and table on the veranda. There is nothing better than to sit and read a book. There is nothing better than sitting down and reading a book, feeling the soft breeze and the sunshine on my skin as I enter the world of books. Countless books exist in this world, like shining stars in the sky. I don’t know how many books I will encounter and read in my lifetime, but in books I can be many different people, I can go to many different countries, I can feel many different things. You can imagine works of art in the text, you can hear beautiful music in the text. You can even taste delicious food and desserts in the letters.
After spending time alone, I can enjoy time with my family. Baking a loaf of bread fills the room with the delicious aroma of baking. It is also important to water the plants in the pots. It is important to water the plants in your flowerpots, as they are always alive and need to be moisturised. It’s the same with all living things in this world. What a wonderful thing it is to feel things, to talk about things with loved ones and to feel happy about the small and simple things in life.