Someone comes to you and compliments your t-shirt, and even though you’d spent 15 minutes earlier that day to chose that top, you’ve to look down to check what you’re wearing. You very fondly set the wallpaper of your phone, but hardly ever notice it. You might clean your home everyday, but if someone asks you what all you’ve kept on the shelves, you won’t get all of them right! The bedsheet on which you slept last night, the company for the fridge which has been there for years, complete number on your car’s license plate and some people don’t even remember their own phone number! These small things in your life, however important they might be to you, fail to get your notice. Is it the absence of interest or just a lacking in your observation?
The fact is that we live our life, without giving much attention to things. You tell me, you look at the clock many times a day, everyday! How many of you know, whether the markings are in numerals or roman letters! Not many, I myself never noticed it! And I guess, if you ask me a month later, I might not remember that they’re numerals!
It’s not just the things that we neglect; we neglect our close ones too. Taking them for granted! We go to college or office, have fun, laugh out with friends, spend most of the day there and come home tired. Have dinner being lost in TV and then go off to sleep. How many of us, sit down with their parents, asking them how their day was and sharing your own moments. We know more about Ted Mosby and how he met his wife than about our own family members.
It’s said that we realize the importance of something only when its long gone. We look back at our life and think of all the things we should have done! Don’t we all promise ourselves, at the time of exams, to study in the next semester and end up doing the same things we did this semester! We’re so lost that we fail to realize the importance of every moment, every breath, every small thing, and every small detail of the life around us. We view everything superficially, noting just as much as we need at the moment, never appreciating the finer details. The finer details of things, people and relations!
We keep planning for the future or cribbing about the past, and in that we fail to enjoy the present fully.
It’s high time we quit dilly-dallying and became more aware of our surroundings, the feelings of our loved ones and our own needs. It’s time we gave a thought to what we’re doing to ourselves and to others.
It’s time to give those tid-bits the importance they deserve!
