Meaningful sayings in life. Little lessons that are taken for granted very easily.

I am now starting to feel for one of these great sayings... a little. I feel stupid for feeling so but I don't think I need to be blamed. I know why.

My upbringing at home has seen that I must be either looking at the very practical or rational side of things, or be looking at the totally abstract image of it. At my various institues that I partook the packaged education, I could mix around fairly well with anyone, having a somewhat healthy but faint social circle. But the clique I went into had to be one that discriminated 'lameness', that were people that basked in total practicality. Ones that had somewhat killed their senstivity, that had lightened the weightage of emotionas by considering the norm as exaggerations. Yeah... Peer pressure.

Yet now... I must admit that I finally am touched by this single saying. This confession really dennies me; its neither abstract nor practical. Yet, I don't want to place it in Implorations as its not a just a spectacle I put on. Heck no, it now finally touches my inner being. The deep scripting that dwells in me.

The saying, let me paraphrase it by the words of my discipline master: 'Actually, if you take a closer look at life, you will realise that it is actually the small things that matter in it. The small things that show who you are. And it is those small things, that create the biggest impact and impression that you can leave in your life.'

Indeed.

But the only thing that contridicts this saying.... is Richard Carlson's series of 'Don't sweat the small stuff'. Somewhat... disputive. But anyway, the point is in place.

I have realised... life has been always made up of these small things. Big events are remembered by small things. Vicotries are recalled through small things. Deeds of kindness are always appreciated, by first remebering the small things. Small things matter. A lot.

And by comparing the significance of the small things, and the value it luminates....
I can appreciate its beauty.

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