Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back and realize they were the big things.
—Robert Brault
The morning rush before you get them ready for school. The time you spent waiting at a traffic light. When you were both hungry, so you stopped for fast food. When they messed up, but instead of getting mad you sat down as a family and talked. That weekend afternoon where you watched a movie on the couch.
These seem like little, inconsequential, ultimately forgettable moments. The background noise of life. Quintessential garbage time. But that’s misleading. Just as one man’s trash (or garbage time, in this case) is another man’s treasure, so can these little moments—if you decide to see them properly and soak them in—become the big moments, the important time.
Don’t take it for granted. Don’t let your mind or your attention drift. Don’t get too anxious (or ambitious) about the future at the expense of the present. Just be here now. Be with them.
Treat the little things as big things. Because in truth, that’s what they are.