Between the Lines

When you walk around outside, do you see what you are looking at? Do you notice the azure sky, the crisp smell after a cool spring rain, the sound of laughing water? Why is it that there are so many wonders flowing past us that we rarely pay attention to? I’ve seen many beautiful things in my life, and they are part of what makes life good, and rare, and unique, and precious. Some things you’ll never see again in your life. Doesn’t it make sense to look for them? I wonder exactly how many things we pass by as we rush through our daily lives. We need to walk slower, to see everything we can, to actually touch the things rushing by. Because who knows? If we cease to do so, what happens to it? Without regard for the things that make up the world just as we do they will vanish like rain in the parched desert, lost forever beyond reckoning. So many things are being lost, because people don’t watch where they step. We are not blameless ourselves. But we are, as they always say, the future. If we don’t look and see, then we are a downward spiral, for our children will not look if we can’t teach them.


So take things a little slower. Look around and see what you’re living in. Is it really so bland as to be passed by? Here we are taking our focus on things that in the long run probably really don’t matter. Sometimes we feel like we can’t get anything done, like nothing’s important anymore. Because we focus on the unimportant, fence ourselves in with routine and the mundane, we think we can ignore in our little cells all the other things that are happening and think that life is amazing, when we’re missing so much. Remember, although the big things in life are what shape life and shape people, it’s the little things that make or break it. It’s the little things in life that are the sweetest and most precious. Take some time and find them!