I feel like I'm noticing more and more everyday that life is all about the small stuff. In Mr. Marshall's class we read the book "Don't Sweat the Small Stuff...and it's all small stuff". I don't think there is a book with a truer title. Our lives are made up of millions of "small stuffs" put together. Stuff that works out the way we hoped and stuff that doesn't. Stuff that gives way to newer better stuff and stuff that hinders our performance. The majority of this "stuff" overlaps at one point or another.
And while we shouldn't sweat the small stuff we shouldn't take it for granted either. Smile at a nice text from a good friend. Laugh at a corny joke your grandfather tells you. Talk about a book you're reading with your mom. Tell your sister you love her because you probably don't do it enough. Forgive others and yourself for even the things that seem to be the most major offenses.
From now on I will attempt to give you a blog every night before bed that gives an example of something little that in the moment meant so much to me.
Two nights ago it was something as simple as standing in the kitchen making an ice cream sundae with my grandpa. It wasn't anything fancy, just chocolate & vanilla ice cream with some chocolate syrup.
Yesterday it was playing in the pool with Jenny, mom, and Pap. It was just four family members hitting a little rubber Mickey Mouse ball back and forth.
It's all small stuff, but that doesn't mean it isn't important stuff. It's all important, it all coincides and overlaps, and at times interferes. It culminates over time and ends the day we die. The small stuff, quite simply, makes up our whole life.
Don't sweat the small stuff, love it.
NP: Sweet Disposition- The Temper Trap
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