There are things that we strive for and there are things that make us happy. Most often we think that both of them are overlapping. Surely, we strive for things that will make us happy, but in this constant pursuit of happiness, some “little things” eludes us that do makes us happy but we often don’t strive for them. It is these little things that provide momentary doses of joy and content, and that keeps us going for larger pursuits.
It is very difficult to define or describe little things. For start, they are not big things, that we desperately plan for like getting that job, marriage, buying a house, etc. They are those things that come in the form of episodes of happiness interspersed among the big things.
Watching our favorite cartoon as a child, wearing our favorite dress in school on birthday, catching the smile of our crush, playing antakshari during power outages, making ice-cream in our new fridge, buying our first phone, spending our first salary, meeting old college friends, watching movie with spouse after a long day, compliments on the new dress, getting the much needed solitude, and laughing together with family are some of the little things.
Little things matter for the simple reason that they make us happy. And we do almost always appreciate little things when they happen. But we don’t actively make efforts to create those little moments. Sometimes in the pursuit of big things, we forget about little things. We defer them, ignore them or simply omit them, which can make us unfulfilled and unsatisfactory.
Man is a passionate animal. Even achieving the biggest of big things will not make us perpetually happy. We always crave for more. While both big and little things make us happy, although, in different proportions, there is one fundamental difference between the two. Little moments can be created more easily without much efforts. You can right now create those moments, bringing smiles on the face of your loved ones.
Therefore, they hold the key to maximization of happiness. They hold the key to every relationship. They hold the key to personal satisfaction.
It is these little things that make us enjoy the journey.
Well, this post is short, but there is no measure of the impact that this has had on me. I don’t have enough writing skills to make it more appealing, so I request you to think over it.