Tuesday, April 10, 2012

Small Things Matter

As average modern-day people, we tend to get so overburdened by minor everyday problems and setbacks, that we overlook the easiest solutions.  We label our problems as 'unsolvable' without having even tried.  We settle with having to deal with the problem for the rest of our lives instead of considering to fix it.  We are taught to focus on larger goals - on the 'big picture' - and we aren't left with enough time to mind the smaller bumps in the road.  So our ultimate goal, whatever that might be, gets patched with all these minor struggles, and soon we are left wallowing in a pile of indiscernible issues.  I think that all these issues should be fixed.  Whether they seem silly and unimportant, whether it's the kind of problem that you're afraid to tell your best friend about for fear that they'll laugh - if they are taking away from the comfort and joy of every day existence, they should be fixed.  Only once we learn to overcome the little things, will we have the right kind of time and energy to give to the larger endeavors.

Sunday, April 8, 2012

Labels are for Clothes

If only 7 billion people saw this and agreed on this.  Seems so simple!  What's the matter?



Thursday, April 5, 2012

Never Ignore the Goals of Others

I was talking to a friend and said something that, for me, was just a simple every day action.  As a huge surprise to me, what I had said offended him greatly.  This simple, innocent, in my experience, action meddled directly with the success of the goals of my friend and many others.

And so I realized that a small action of one individual, even one that seems utterly insignificant to you, can have a huge outcome and affect on others.  Whenever we ignore, discard, or dismiss a piece of information, a plea for a donation, a request for our attention - we overlook the goal, aspiration, or purpose of somebody else.  Perhaps it is not our responsibility to respond with 100% eagerness to the wishes of others, but it is our responsibility to allow their ideas inside our own mind, and give them at least a moment of consideration and thought.  Many times, you'll notice that their path is not so far away from yours.