All the little things

“Enjoy the little things in life because one day you`ll look back and realize they were the big things.”

                                                              Kurt Vonnegut

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All the little things

That make up a life

We like to think sometimes

We are defined by our careers

Our “big” accomplishments

That what matters are our degrees

Our titles

Our power

Our wealth

We are so convinced at times

that we will sacrifice time, and energy

and perhaps even love

to pursue those things, as so convince ourselves

and perhaps those around us too

that we have worth

value

I have done a lot of things

I have had multiple careers

I have successful, for the most part, in all of them

I have had the “titles”

I have the degrees

I have traveled the world

Touching down in 70 plus countries

And I have done things what were meaningful

Interesting

And yet

None of those things

Will be

In the end

The “big things”

Instead it will be

A day on the mountain

A morning walk with the dog

Sunrise on a winter’s morning

Laughter echoing across a full table

A hug from a friend at church

An Americano from Red Horse

A trip to see the kids

Playing Lego with my grandson

Cornhole on the front lawn

Finding Disney bling for my granddaughter

Shu the cat’s morning nap on my keyboard

In the midst of all the busyness of life

And the search for success

In the middle of all the stress,

As the world divides and unravels around us

It will be the small things that we will carry with us

Into whatever

is Next