Small Wonders

Isn't it just incredible how it's always the smallest things that can make everything work? How the most minute occurrences are the ones that really bring joy and the delight of laughter? It's beautiful how you can be having a terrible day, a headache, and be under a load of stress, and with the smallest thing in the world be able to enjoy life again. Sometimes that little thing is all we need to really remind us why life is worthwhile.

For the past two days, that is exactly what has happened to me. Both yesterday and today, I was not in the best of moods...and then such small things happened and I couldn't help but laugh and smile. It really is incredible--the power of detail. We always say, "it's just details," but in reality, without details, there is nothing. It's the minutia that we really live for, the small moments when we feel truly alive for seemingly no good reason at all. And that's what makes it all so beautiful--the sheer insignificance yet power of such things.

The world is a beautiful place, sometimes we just have to remember how to look around us and find the hidden treasures. Like good players in a game of hide-and-seek, the most beautiful things are hidden in plain sight yet so well that only the most meticulous and experienced of observers will be able to distinguish them from the surroundings. Every time we're down, every time we feel afraid, remorseful, exhausted...we need to remember to really look around ourselves, to take a minute to appreciate the beauty of our world. After all, if not for the precious moments of this world, what else could we possibly live for?