An Ode to a Conversation

There comes a time. A breaking point. A final straw. There comes a moment in everyone's life where they feel they cannot go on from where they are at. This may come as a complete shock to some, and a welcomed addition to others. This may be a total surprise or a long-awaited release, but however it comes, it comes with a reason and a purpose.

After a discussion with someone nearest and dearest to my heart, I felt a great sense in urgency in writing this. Life is not a privilege, it is a blessing.

Many times, everyday, we take things for granted. Things as simple as having a door held open for us. As simple as someone picking up a pen we dropped. As simple as smile on a brief fly-by, by a total stranger. It is these things that can, at times, amount to the most special feelings we feel.

We, as humans, don't necessarily say thank you for all the things others do for us. They are taken for granted, written off as an expense, that the person performing such acts is "required" to do. Things that we have become so accustomed to, that they get filed away with the typical mental- and emotional-paperwork that we deal with on a day-to-day basis, but they are really so much more. We make take the things that someone does as "just the way they are," as "just the thing they usually do..." But they are not, they are so much more.

So I implore you, any of you who read this blog, be you one or a million, say thank you once in a while. The simple little things that are done by another, bring them to a brilliant and gorgeous light! Like a sunrise after an eclipse, don't let anything fade! Don't let the little things go unnoticed, because it's the add-up, the total sum of the little things, that amount to the biggest and greatest feeling(s) that you feel.