THE LITTLE THINGS

This can be either good or bad. The one thing you can be sure is that they will take far more time than you expect. Which is why they end up sometimes turning out to be other than little things.

However they do start out with promise. You look at them and think, “Oh this is going to be easy.” Then by the time you are done you find out easy is never easy.

Take having a flat tire. If you have a jack and lug wrench, it doesn’t have to be a long process. But sometimes it turns ugly. They lug nuts might be practically locked in place thanks to the guy at the tire store. So it takes forever to change the tire. That doesn’t make for a happy ending.

But what makes the flat tire a pain, it that it was unexpected. If your car had a warning light that could tell you, tomorrow you will end up with a flat tire, you could at least plan ahead.

That never happens. Instead it will often happen when you are getting ready for work or on the way to an important meeting. Thus making sure a little thing because a big thing.

Now on the flip side one thing that makes me smile is when the little thing happens to somebody else. They show up for a meeting all stressed out and some little thing just ruined your day.

So in those situations they really do give you a reason to smile. Mainly because you know the other poor sap is miserable. Plus you didn’t have to even plan it.

Ah life does have its rewards at times. One being when the little things bring joy. Hopefully there is more of those than the frowns. Here’s hope your little things stay little.