Hold on a Second. Take a deep breath and recall your past few days. Figure out the things that changed your life, brought a smile on your face or changed your out look for life.
Now start counting all these incidents and place them into two different categories. Big Events and Small Everyday Incidents. What do you get? For every big event (if there were any in the past few few days) there are so many small incidents.
Conclusion: Small things matter in life. Big events that change your life for ever are few and far apart like a new child in your life or marriage or a college degree. They happen rarely and you have to struggle to achieve them. But small things, they just happen out of the blue. A smile from a total stranger, A "Hi There" from that girl/guy you have a serious crush on, Or just a simple courtesy call from a long lost friend. These brighten your day and make you feel worthwile.
Small things in life I believe are so much underrated. "Get well soon" for a sick person or a "Thank you" for some service provided to you makes all the difference. People are starved for affection and love. In today's world we find it much easier to be affectionate to our pets then to our neighbours.
Have you had some preson you had long forgotten call you on your birthday to wish you. Doesn't that make you feel wonderful and loved and important. There is this friend of mine. We have been studying together since hi-school and share the same date of birth. We don't talk much, just the "hi" friends and I rearly call her. But since the first year I have known her I made it a point to call her home and wish her. This past year I was a little late in calling and guess what more then her, it was her mother who was waiting for me to call. She was worried that I hadn't called in yet. All it takes is a phone call and this lady whom I havn't yet have had a pleasure of meeting already feels a bond.
A few heartfelt moment spent with a person could mean more then a life time spent with other people. I spent two months working together with this person and those 60 days means more to me then years I have spent with rest of my friends.
It takes seconds for a bond to develop only we have to let it happen. In our quest for big things we miss out on so many of those smaller moments. Things that could have truely made a difference.
I don't know if I will ever get the VISA for my studies in the US but I do know that the time I have spent with people in the Yahoo Group has been wonderful and already makes me feel closer to most of them. Why? Cause I know, even if I am there in person I wouldn't have had the opportunity to know names of many of them let alone have a converstation.
It only takes a moment, a few seconds of our lives to say "hello" or "thank you" or wish a "good day" to some one. But these few seconds could mean a life time of a difference to the other person. Well it definetley does mean a lot to me.
So take a time out and : Break the language Barrier :: SMILE :
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