I went to a meeting and in part of the informal conversation a person talked about how King Charles is now on some of our Canadian coins. I was quick to say that I had no idea that this had begun and had certainly not seen any. The person speaking said that she was just looking in her coin purse and discovered one. I was fascinated; how can it be that I have not seen one yet. When I went home, I told my husband about it and then I went to the ceramic potato where we keep loose change. It did not take me long to find a coin with King Charles on it. I had at least one and never noticed. While I don’t think I would go all the way to envy, I did have a reaction to being told that something existed and then sure that I had not had one. Just made me think of all the times that we perceive that others have something extra or less challenges or more opportunities. We might feel jealous or cheated about something we perceive as shiny and different in someone else’s change purse. I think, if we look again or differently at what we have, much of the time we can find the very thing that we think is lacking in our own space. It is said that we focus on the attributes in others that we most want to work on in ourselves. If you see something that delights or that you wish you had, you probably already do, you simply must look inside your own potato or hiding place.
