What is it that is important in life? The big things or the little things? I often hear the quote, “enjoy the little things,” thrown out in conversation regularly. Yet it is the big things, the big decisions such as picking a college, a job, a career, a spouse, and a location to live, that can shape our lives so drastically. It makes picking what to eat for lunch so trivial in comparison. So should we even focus energy on the little things? And then should we concentrate all our time on the important things/decisions? Not necessarily.
Who truly knows what the big decisions are? One day we might look back and realize those same small things were actually the big things. There may be a time when someone is having a monotonous talk with their father about something of irrelevance. Seems like a small thing, until it is the last time you speak to your father before he passes. Picking a career may seem like the most important thing in the world, until you realize that the happiness you are searching for is a daily choice. Thus, in all things, whether they seem big and small, we need to be more present and self aware. For until our deathbed, we might never know their true importance.
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