When I meditate, I often feel a sense of gratitude. However, recently, I've been experiencing feelings of gratitude and happiness even during my everyday life, without specifically meditating.

Everything feels precious, and I feel happy.

Although there are different levels of depth to these feelings of happiness and gratitude, I can often experience gratitude and happiness to a degree that feels quite normal, allowing me to live my daily life with a sense of gratitude and happiness.

Of course, I don't always feel this way, and sometimes I'm reminded of the past, which can momentarily trigger a state similar to trauma. However, for the most part, I'm able to live my life with feelings of happiness and gratitude.

For no particular reason, I simply find my ordinary daily life to be "happy." There's nothing special about it, and there's nothing particularly remarkable about my environment, but I can feel a sense of gratitude and appreciation for my everyday life. I think that state is "happiness."

It doesn't seem to depend on having a partner or anyone else being present. There may be some underlying conditions that I'm not aware of, but I believe that the fact that I'm able to live a clean and safe life, even with those underlying conditions, allows me to feel happy and appreciate my everyday life without dwelling on them.

I currently work full-time, but I don't have excessive overtime, and my salary is fairly average. I have no debt and live a normal life. My home is not very large; it's a relatively old apartment building, but even in this ordinary environment, I can feel happiness and gratitude in my daily life.

There's no end to what you could compare it to, whether you look up or down. I'm not particularly interested in comparing myself to others, and I simply feel grateful for my current environment and experience happiness. I'm living a life that's quite similar to before, but now I feel happy and express gratitude for that same life.

This is similar to what spiritual people often say, "Be content with what you have," but it's also slightly different. If you look at it positively, you could say it's the same, but I'm not particularly interested in the concepts of "satisfaction" or "dissatisfaction." Achieving something isn't a prerequisite for happiness or gratitude. It's not about feeling unhappy because you haven't achieved something, or feeling happy only because you have. It's fundamentally different from that. Even without any prerequisites (although there are some minimum prerequisites), I can feel happy and grateful without seeking anything or achieving anything.

It's like a feeling from a song, a feeling of finding happiness in ordinary daily life, expressing gratitude for those happy days, and experiencing that subtle state of happiness.

When I couldn't initially enter this state of happiness and gratitude, I would meditate and chant mantras to enter that state. However, once I reach a certain level, I feel that the same gratitude and happiness can continue in my daily life. Although the state varies from day to day, I feel it's necessary to periodically check my state through meditation. However, on some days, I can experience gratitude and happiness in my daily life even without meditating.