The Little Things

Today I found myself lying on the couch around seven o'clock watching the television like countless other lazy Americans. The question of course you would ask me is, were you watching the presidential debate? Unfortunately I was wasting my precious time on the couch watching the presidential debate then watching something better on Fuel TV. Nonetheless, the point of this whole ordeal was that while I was earnestly focusing on the debate I realized and discovered something so simple. This simple thing had nothing to do with the debate whatsoever; and it had everything to do with what matters. While sprawled out on the couch unaware, I suddenly felt the subtle beating of my heart. This simple part of a humans life goes unnoticed everyday by countless people. I sat there for minutes feeling the pumping of my heart against my hand and I was in awe of the magnificence of it all. The simple beat of a heart suddenly became so deep and intense to me. Your life is in the hands of this fist-sized heart every second of every day. With my hand still on my chest the thought of my heart just stopping came to mind and it tripped me out. Our heart could stop at any given moment without giving anyone any sign of a warning, and I thought of the saying "you got to have heart." And it is true, there is two hearts in all of us, one is the literal heart pumping blood in our body and the other is our soul. This rediscovery of my beating heart was just new and refreshing to me. How I can get so caught up in everyday life and forget about the basics. Forget about how gnarly it is that all these chemical combinations and bonds keep us alive everyday and how I take it for granted. My challenge for myself and everyone is to take a step back and look at the simple things in every situation. How grateful you are you have a job, how grateful you are you actually get to go to school, how grateful you have a house. These things are so simple it seems but really they are big. If you didn't have that job, if you didn't have that opportunity to go to school, if you didn't have that house. Everything changes. So take a step back, reexamine the small things and really take time to enjoy the simple things life offers you. For it may seem simple and granted on the outside, but on the inside it may be deeper than you think.