I don't travel ever. The farthest I've gone out in years has only been the Phoenix area and that isn't very often. In fact my last big trip before this spring break was to California in the 7th grade. Only reason I was able to go was because my Grandfather died and we had some money he left behind. But the 7th grade was a very long time ago and I was an extremely different kid back then.
To clarify, I was still young. I didn't appreciate many things. Wasn't until my Grandfather passed that life kind of got a little more real for me. But this isn't the point. Nowadays, I do a lot more thinking and reflection and I surprise myself by how much I appreciate the smaller things.
For example this past week on spring break, I spent the first half trapped inside my house. I felt like I was missing out on so much even though I knew there wasn't anything out there I was trying to find. So I did a lot of thinking and I found that there is an easier way for me to approach my boredom and imminent loss of sanity. I can sit there and wallow in my laziness or flip that and see it as if I'm accomplishing something. I watch ten episodes of a TV show, and I feel like I didn't completely waste all that time. A movie I have never seen before shows up on Netflix, and I watch it, then there is another film added to my repertoire of movie knowledge.
Although this blog isn't really about me not traveling, I did go somewhere just recently that helped me further appreciate the smaller things: The Grand Canyon.
The Canyon is in fact Grand, and truly did not seem to be real when I first gazed upon it. I wondered to myself what the first person to lay eyes upon it thought to themselves, because I was mesmerized. I probably could have stood there for hours just staring and pondering the many many years it took to create such a wonder on this planet, and how little time I have had here myself.
Because well, the way I see it, I have only been around for seventeen years of existence. That is absolutely microscopic compared to the entirety of Earth and the universe. I have sometimes struggled greatly with grasping the fact that I won't be around forever and that I feel I have wasted the time given to me. Even though I believe everything that has happened to me has occurred for some reason, I still feel gloomy about the subject.
I have never been certain about a lot of things, but over time I have come to realize that I cannot dwell on the past. What I really mean by this is that despite me never having the opportunities to travel, or never getting out on spring break, or so many other things I feel that I have missed, I can still hope for the future to bring to change to all of that. Instead of feeling bad about it, I need to be grateful of what I have done and what I do got. I appreciate the smaller things because compared to Earth, I am one of those smaller things and I don't got all the time in the world. (No pun intended)
Sunday, March 20, 2016
All the small things
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Over the years I have heard you talk about not traveling and always being at home doing something at home. Whether it is video games or watching Netflix or something like that. Through reading this article though I see what I have seen for a long time, and that is even if you haven’t traveled you have the knowledge as if you have and that is important.
ReplyDeleteYour spring break may not have been the most exciting ever, but just because it wasn’t as exciting doesn’t mean it was wasted as you state later in your paper. You spent time with friends, visited the Grand Canyon which some people always want to do but never are able to, all on top watching some TV which we all did.
We may be microscopic to the Earth, maybe to the point where we don’t even matter as living creatures, but he way I see it we are alive for some reason and what you have done in the past adds up to what will happen now. Keep on appreciating the small things, because they may be the most important.
I am really glad that you chose to blog about this particular subject, because it is very nice to know that there are other people on this big green and blue planet who are able to recognize how small we are in comparison to the bigger picture. In spite of this fact it is a very beautiful concept that someone is able to appreciate the beauty of human life: we are here for a short time, but we might as well make what little time that we have worthwhile. That, in my humble opinion, is one of the most beautiful ideas that has ever been presented.
ReplyDeleteIsaac, of all the posts I've read, I see eye-to-eye with this one. Don't get me wrong, I've "travelled," but they were mostly school field trips or on track meets, so I couldn’t look around much, but he bit about "appreciating the small things" is where my mind became glued to the screen. This is an aspect that seems to be a difficult thing to grasp, and you seem to have it down cold. And I envy your optimism for the future.
ReplyDeleteI am also a Netflix binger, and share the feeling of accomplishment when I finish a whole season in one day.
Sorry about your grandfather, btw.
I just wrote my blog on something similar to this too bud! That's pretty cool, great minds think alike. I totally see where you are coming from. I wrote my blog on how social media makes us sad. I really believe it does, seeing all of the cool things people do. W don't need to worry about what other people are doing, because if we're not doing those cool things, it makes us sad. That's why i hardly get on social media bud. You don't have to hope to do these things, i know you will bud.
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