Learn to Appreciate the Little Things in Life

They say that ‘The most small and neglected things in life, are generally the ones that are of great importance”. Well, indeed, this small line in itself speaks a million words, and sparks off a thousand thoughts in a conscious mind. Not many are aware that the secret to living a life full of joy and satisfaction, lies in appreciating the little things that life has to offer. The greatness does not lie in getting the huge pay cheque, with no time to spare for your family, but it lies in attaining the supreme pleasures of smelling the flowers, playing with your 2 year old, spending relaxed moments with your wife by just listening to her words, surprising your Mom with the drive she always wanted in your big car, and going on a walk with your Dad on a beautiful morning.


Someone has remarked, ‘A man is nothing in himself”. Every ounce of flesh and blood in our body is either out of debt, or an award of somebody else’s actions. Thus, it would not be incorrect to say that a man cannot alone architect his destiny. He needs this constant voice of a loved one that encourages him, tells him he’s going to win, he will pass the odds, and success will fall his way. Some may argue, loners too make for impeccable success. Well, I’d still believe, that no man on his own can create his destiny – a mentor, guide, critic, someone has to be behind the success. And as soon he becomes successful, he finds it hard to share the triumph. He calls it his own win. All other things and people seem a rank below. Dejection takes its course towards the most important people. The happiness lies in seeking bigger successes. And, yes ignorance towards people is bliss!!


Once we start attaining the bigger things in life, a lot of us think of small things in our lives as useless and unnecessary. Why, how many times do we thank our mom’s for cooking us a sumptuous dinner? Or the friend who drove all the way from one end of the city to pick us up on a rainy day?
Its not that we don’t feel the effort, the feelings behind the effort, but its just that we are too engrossed with the bigger issues of our life that we tend to overlook these minute little things a bit so often that we end up taking people, places, and their efforts for granted. And that is how we ourselves isolate so much from the lives of our loved one, leaving a vacuum in their lives, a vacuum that they will gradually fill with either someone else, or replace it with useless indulgencies, unnecessary shopping sprees, and in some extreme cases by liquor, drugs or perhaps infidelity.

If we could learn to celebrate the smaller things if life, we would make up for the bigger triumphs.

Well, it would not be inappropriate to quote Vincent Van Gogh here,
"Great things are done by a series of small things brought together."