It’s the little things in life that mattered this year
Every morning, I turn on the coffee maker, grab my favorite mug, and then patiently wait as the sound and sight of the slow drip, drip, drip happen like clockwork. This ritual is what made me get through a year filled with worldly anxieties and unknowns.
Knowing I could do this each day, have a coffee in a familiar cup, is the kind of thing that reminds me of how the important things in life are always reflected in simple ways. Coffee, favorite TV shows, walks around neighborhoods, passing by pictures of family and friends, reading the newspaper funnies. They are all the things that kept me going.
These days, we need easy things, little things, common things to keep us going.
A lot of those little things have been taken away. Eating at your favorite childhood restaurant. Watching a movie with an endless bag of popcorn. Waving a little flag during a Fourth of July parade. Cheering on the hometown high school football team. We haven’t done those things and it feels like part of us, is no longer part of us. We are incomplete.
Like almost everything in life, from how we wake up, to what we do at work, how we prepare our meals, and what we like to do in quiet moments, we are usually in control. Now, in the most unusual of times…
