I had a lovely conversation this morning with a good friend. After a while the talk turned to simple things. The statement was made "it is the simple things ... the little things that make such a BIG difference". My response, " yes they do....too many miss that going for the grand gesture". Simple things indeed.
There is an incredible, simple concept I like to live my life by. It is the concept of Living Life In Minutes. I live my life in minutes rather than days. In small spaces of time, focused, intently concentrated on what is happening now...not what may happen later. Not what may happen tomorrow. I live for what is. What is now.
Consider how it is you treat something that you don't have very much of. Like a minute. How do you treat that minute... with great care? I savor it, be careful with it, enjoy it. I certainly won't waste it. Consider then what is done with excess...does it really matter at all if you lose something you have so much of? Certainly not. Thus, I live life in minutes. Precious minutes. I savor each one.
Recently my own life was virtually reduced to minutes. Each one critical, each one desperately necessary to get to the next one. The life lived in those minutes was almost all that was left. Critical minutes. Minutes that changed me.
Now, it is in these minutes that I am alive. My minutes are filled with small things, small gestures, small desires, small wishes. They are unmistakably important in their simplicity. Simplicity, that I offer in return. My own gesture toward what it is I desire...more simplicity.
Those who know me, really know me, understand my love of one single rose. They know what it signifies, what it means to me. They understand that it is in the small things for me. They understand that I am not asking for a grand gesture, but a small simple one. An intimate one, an honest one. I am not asking for the world, for the future. I am not asking to be impressed, overwhelmed. I am simply asking for this minute. Just this minute with me. With me.
For in that minute will be found all the things I have, all the things I wish to share, all the things I desire to give. All the things I would carefully place in ones hands if they understood that minute with me. Small things, simple things. Things I protect and care for. Things that are in essence...me.
For it is in these small gestures, these single minutes that I live my life. It is in these minutes I am willing to share them, share that life which is a life well lived. Minute by lovely minute . Indeed
