Those magical little things.
As I write this post, I’m thinking about many small details that led me to write it.
For example, I’m thinking about the wonderful earrings that my friend made for me. The last night we were in Nicaragua, my friends were drinking beer, and she collected the bottle caps and made earrings for us the following week. I must say that I love them; they are simple and beautiful, and they bring back memories from the trip. I was so happy when she gave them to me, and they hold so much value!
I’m also thinking about a morning when I was having breakfast at university. I was eating a scrambled egg and toast, and I remembered how much I used to do that when I was studying, how much I enjoyed it. I felt happy with my egg and toast because I took the time to be there again and enjoyed it so much…
This post is about how wonderful it is to enjoy those magical little things that make us very happy, and what makes me even happier is that I am able to enjoy those small but great things.
I am happy because I am happy with my beer cap earrings, as if they were made of gold, and even happier I don’t really like gold. I am happy because I enjoyed my piece of bread and my eggs as much as I enjoy a sushi roll (and believe me, I enjoy sushi very much), and above all, because I am still able to be happy with such details.
I don’t want anyone to get angry, or to think that I am egocentric by talking about how happy I am, or that this post about earrings and eggs is silly.
I just want to share this feeling, this thing that allows us to enjoy things that happen every day and make us feel good, think well, feel appreciated, feel that we can love, that we have a lot to share, and that we receive a lot every day.
I would like people to think about what small thing can make them happy, and do it, like going to the movies (it doesn’t matter if you go alone), watching TV, surfing the internet just for fun, smiling at someone you don’t know, making faces in the mirror, singing a song you like, doing a funny dance… I don’t know! Just do what you like.
Because usually, as we grow up, we forget about the things we like, because we need a house, a car, new clothes, zeros in our bank account. We have to study more and more, and suddenly we don’t have time to do what we like, we don’t have time to enjoy because we’re always thinking about a million things we have to do… to get where? Because many times, in the end, we find that we were just chasing ghosts, sometimes we even forget what we desperately wanted, why we didn’t stop all day, why we worked 60 hours a week?
I’m not saying that you can’t be happy pursuing a big dream, like a house, a career, a car, a business, any huge project you have, I’m just saying that the goal alone it’s not satisfactory, because for it to be truly worth it, we should enjoy the whole journey to it.
I guess I’m just sharing how I understood that I shouldn’t go crazy, stress myself, get sad, or depressed about the things I don’t have, but that I should enjoy all the wonderful things that I do have.
I want to share it because I’m afraid that one day I’ll forget, and I beg that if that ever happens… please remind me of those magical little things.