By Vicki Hughes Posted March 28, 2013
Most people agree it’s not the big stuff that really makes us crazy. It’s the little things: the dripping faucet, the ticking of a clock at three a.m., the toothpaste flattened in the middle, that breathing. Little things have the power to unravel us.
But little stuff is also some of the most satisfying stuff in the Universe. I am quite the fan of little things. When I’m attentive to the right little things, I step over into a place where life feels good, and my heart in nearly overflowing with appreciation for all of the thousands of little details that make up this experience we call Life.
Seeing the little stuff that is all around us, supporting and comforting us, making us smile or laugh, making today’s demands a little easier to get through, those things are noteworthy. A cup of tea or coffee in the morning, made just the way we like it. The ability to put on tiny earphones and be transported by beautiful music, pets, who love us with an unfathomable devotion. A healthy, simple meal on our table, and the four walls, wrapped protectively around us, keeping the cold and wind outside.
Our sense of smell, telling us the tea olive is in bloom, the coffee is perking, the cookies are nearly done. Our eyesight, allowing us to take in written words and process them, to see photographs of places we’ve been, and of who we’ve been, and with whom…that catalog of our own personal history that plays out a story in our mind’s eye. We simply pick up the edges of a photograph from twenty years ago, and we can appreciate the fact that we are not that person anymore, because we’ve learned a trick or two in the meantime.
Yes, it cost us a few wrinkles, creases and grey hairs, but we’re here. Here is good. Here has potential. Here has life and breath, and one more day to look around. Here has people, and those people need us here. Here is where we get to smile at them, and talk to them, tell them a story or encourage them to not quit. Not today. Here has the power of all our previous “theres” in it, with the added bonus of Google to fill in the pieces we can’t remember.
Here is chock full of little things that, when we notice them, can be the most amazing place we’ve been in a long time. Breathe it in. Let it weave it’s way into your story, so that one day, a little bit later, it will stand out, and sustain you.
© Vicki Hughes 2013
So right!Lets hear it for here for this is where life happens not in the past not in the future but NOW ! Now is when you can do little things that may make a big difference in the future.Simple little things that mean a lot ; )
I like keeping it simple
(less to remember!)
Great reminder.when you start appreciating little things you see there is no end :0)
That’s true. You notice one, and another one pops on the screen!
Here Here! I think this is your best post so far. all are god but this one hit the nails on the head! Go YOU!
<3 Thank you Kathy! You are a peach
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All the little things, LOVE THIS!! Myself and lots of others spent time wanting this, needing that, the new car even when your old one is ok, the fancy new computer when your laptop still works, those 200 dollar Ugg boots when you have 3 pairs of boots in the closet. You get caught up in it, the wanting the needing, but truly when you step back and think back to that first old clunker of a car you had so much fun in, the first computer you ever owned a handme down that crashed at least once a week, or those cool sorrel boots you scored at the thrift store when the weather was 17 below. You can truly appreciate ALL you have now, realize you don’t need everything and this moment this little cup of coffee with the creamer added just so is what life is all about, the little things. Thanks Vicki for leading us down the road of gratitude. : )
It’s my pleasure, and joy :=)