I just lately watched the Bob Dylan film “A Full Unknown”, the place we get to peek in at a younger Dylan enjoying guitar at tiny little nightclubs and cafes in Greenwich Village. The small scale of those scenes made me smile. A welcome reminder of the worth of small issues. These small concert events in small cafes formed his expertise and his artwork and his voice. The worth wasn’t in what was to come back, however what was taking place in that second to that one individual and to the small group that skilled it with him.
So usually our busy each day lives really feel like full-scale productions, the whole lot always shifting. And when huge issues are taking place on the earth (issues past our management), it could possibly make us really feel like we’re on a big-production film set. Like we’re Extras in a busy city-scene who’re on our method to the busy issues in our busy lives like the entire different Extras, and all of the whereas the massive story of the film is occurring over us.
So I’m sitting within the theater watching Bob Dylan in that tiny cafe with 15 folks listening to his music, and I’m reminded that the small issues matter extra. The small reassuring smile you give that mother with the crying child within the grocery retailer, issues greater than the hassle it took to search out the time to get to the grocery retailer. The small mid-morning dialog that you just had together with your retired mother, issues greater than the holidays that your fb associates are on proper now. The hour you spend together with your small guide membership issues greater than the massive vital issues you possibly can have been doing with that one hour.
We have to reside on the earth – even when huge issues are taking place. However we are able to battle again. We are able to finish our day excited about the small issues we did.
As a result of they matter extra.
Till subsequent time,
Laura
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