"How do you want to be remembered, or for what do you want to be remembered?"
"I think I want people's first impression of me to be my smile. But I don't want them to necessarily remember my smile for just my smile, but rather the joy behind it, the reasons behind why I'm happy, or excited, or in a good mood. I don't want them to just think, 'Hey, that's the girl that's always happy.' I want them to ask themselves why I am so happy, what joys have happened to make me this happy. I'm going through a 'quarter life crisis' right now--I'm changing my major, I just don't know to what--but it's good that I can still find reasons to smile, even through it all. I just focus on making the small things the big things."
"What are some of the 'small things' that are meaningful to you?"
"My Easy Mac right now! It's triple cheese instead of normal--that's something to smile about! And I got the last chocolate chip cookie today--the rest were oatmeal, that was also really exciting."
The future is far too heavy a burden for our thoughts. Too many mornings we embrace the day not as an opportunity, but as an obstacle, separating us from a reunion with our beds.
We don't celebrate the day--we get through the day. And in the process, we all but lose the gifts to be found and cherished within the present moment. We expect the sun to rise, the leaves to change, the people in our lives to be consistent. We anticipate that we will have food to eat, water to drink, and breath to propel us into the next moment.
Expectation, anticipation rob us of appreciation. Gifts are nothing without gratitude.
Treasure the mini moments, the causes of joy that, without warning, slip like sand through the fingers of the unsuspecting individual. Seek to celebrate the moments that make you smile, if only for a little while.
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