I feel like it is almost disturbing how much I tend to focus on the little things, it’s truly something that I wholeheartedly notice and value.
A little thing happened to me last week.
A little thing happened to me last week.
A couple of days ago I was walking around in one of my favourite spots here, this sweet quiet park in the middle of the city looking for a bench to spend my afternoon reading. After a while after I’d settled in, a stranger, foreigner, came up to me and asked if I had a lighter for his cigarette. I passed mine. One thing leads to another and as you do, it ended with a short conversation that managed to cover everything from what one does for a living to relationships. It all just reminded me more of an incredibly amusing blind date. Hilarious. When he reached out to give me back my lighter, I offered him to keep it, it’s not like I’m a smoker or would ever need one anyway.
An insightful twenty-minute conversation and an hour of reading later, I couldn’t possibly hold back my silly grin when the same guy was standing in front of me with a bouquet of peonies, saying (he told me to quote and to write word by word, ha!)
“This was cool! You fed my need of having a smoke so I felt like giving you a bit of attention. I never talk to strangers - I hope these will give you the care that your eyes are missing, the old lady at the shop said girls love them!”
While I was trying to find words to say, and the guy looked a bit freaked out by my reaction (as you would, how does this even happen?!), he added
“I hope these will last you longer than my lighter? I had to get a new one for the next cigarette.”
That’s when we both broke out in laughter and I thanked him. Needless to say, I haven’t read much since that last Wednesday evening.
I’ve had a lot on my plate for a few weeks now, and if this is not something that one could call fate, I might as well stop believing in it. Do good and good will come to you.
This is one of the many reasons I love little things. I keep reminiscing about little things when it comes to anyone, from a smiling someone on the street to a simple conversation. And so I try to do keep the kindness and little things hand in hand in my life, as it constantly manages to teach me that whenever I radiate positivity, I am also surrounded by it and embrace it.
Do a little thing and it might just end up that a lovely person will come back to say thanks with your favourite flowers in their hands. But, I could be glad knowing this stranger guy now, all ties had to be cut as I’ve had someone else in life for a while now.
PS. R, thanks for telling me to start writing again. It does all the things you said it would. I’ll try and trust your advice more in the future.