little wonders?
2009-12-14 parašė Ieva S.this was once supposed to become my English essay. wasn’t successful to transform this into one, so left it this way. Lithuanian translation sounds horrible, so if you don’t mind…
Happiness.
The word itself is banal, I would say. What is it, by the way? Thousands of advertisements are born each day. Thousands of fake promises trying to take over our minds with things supposed to bring us happiness. And millions believing them, buying, using, bragging to lead their lives in a way to achieve the same thing. Quite funny, don’t you think? Lives full of running in circles. Never seeing a way out neither remembering the way you have got in. Just running running running. And many want to stay that way, following an invisible lead, listening to the recorded voices of the adverts, wondering why on Earth they cannot feel happy when they are doing exactly what they should.
Whatever our lives seemed, pretty or colorful or just plain funny, I truly believe everyone alive has had some moments of darkness. Darkness which just absorbs you, leaving yourself craving to curl on your bed or dig a small cozy cave and never bother to come out of it. Honestly, most people should know the feeling when everything seems to be breaking apart and all one can wish is to run somewhere far away as fast as he is able to, leaving everything and everyone behind his back. Or when something hurts so much that the only option seems to scream using all the air you have just inhaled. Or when turning the volume up and trying to shake it all off you is just not working anymore… There may be many examples, as much as there are people walking this Earth. One can have his personal heaven, but however, a personal hell too.
All this writing truly was meant to have a point, though it might not be easy to see at first. Really, if we were supposed to give personal examples here, I would certainly say I have experienced everything I have written about. Maybe just some glimpses of it, but still, I am alive today. And, if bothering to use the word, quite happy about the way I live. Of course you might ask why. And I would surely answer: because I have learned to appreciate the small things that can brighten up our daily lives. I mean it as I am saying: they can appear out of nowhere and seem silly at first, but if you can start seeing them, you will certainly feel a change.
I am speaking too abstractly. What are those tiny things? Those little wonders of life, as one may call them. That could be anything, basically. Silver spider webs glistening in the sun of an autumn morning, a smile of a classmate you catch on your way to school, a red-yellow-violet leaf of a maple gliding by the wind. A cup of ginger tea with an old friend and a crazy dance with your no less crazy little sister, a surprisingly starry night to watch from a balcony. Anything, anything at all. As I said, the real thing to do is to learn to notice them. It might not be easy at first, but it’s all a matter of a habit: the more you practice, the more you learn. And in this case, the happier you get, just because you start to feel that you don’t need anything major to make you so. And that, in my opinion, is the greatest wonder of all.
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