Small bigger things
It’s always the little things that matter. The part that gets easily ignored and forgotten.
Before anything got as big as it sounds; be it a promotion, considering somebody a best friend, a designer, or reaching the apex of other statuses, it all started from somewhere.
That somewhere is the little milestones, the grinds, and hides, the ceaseless little turmoil. Nothing big ever just happened. There’s always a story behind it. The story of how it all started, most times, is very small. These small steps are what usually culminate into the bigger things and hence the title small-bigger things.
But the issue now is that people tend to ignore these little things, as the title connotes — little. Little do they know that overlooking the small steps will always create a leak and loopholes in their endeavor to achieve greater heights. It will influence their quest to obtain the grandiose.
No matter what, smaller things always precede the bigger things and are highly advantageous in knowing and applying them in different cadres of life.
For instance:
In our relationship life, it’s the little gestures from the moment you’re dating your significant other that allows you to give them a bigger chance.
It normally starts small: we are talking about a peck on the cheek after each date, a warm hug here and there. It could also manifest in the form of one’s personality — such as being simple, being soft-spoken, being a good listener, asking specific questions etcetera. These all appear “fickle” until they’re missing in your relationship life.
It’s these little things that matter and always will.
Small things also bear great importance in our career life.
If you didn’t start small you will not “easily” attain the high position you hold now or hope to hold someday. Someway somehow, you had (or have) to work your way to the top. More like a ladder, you took the first step, the lowest or smallest of them all, and steadily got to where you are. That’s how life is. It’s always a step one before step two, before reaching step ten if that was your goal.
There are no two ways about it. There’s no running from it too. So overlooking these small bits might drag you back further than you wish hence frustrating your future goals. So it’s best to embrace it to reach the height you’d hope.
Small bigger things show their relevance in our personal life.
When it comes to our personal life, we are talking about different aspects of it. Be it our mental, emotional or spiritual side. Attempting to balance these core areas of our life, requires us to uphold the relevance of small bigger things. We do this by understanding that personal growth and development, for instance, need us to take it one step at a time. We may start with honesty if dishonesty was our one-time issue before working our way to improving our self-esteem. We practice honesty even, in micro-steps such as telling things like they are without thinking too much about them.
This further highlights the need to always break things down in little achievable steps than jumping the gun and getting hurt (pun unintended).
Small bigger things will always be the way to start to finish. No one ever really started from where they are at now. Designers were once ordinary tailors. Best friends were once just friends. Lovers were once acquaintances.
The point is: there’s always a backstory that required them to be in one or several discomforting micro situations before getting to where they are now.
As much as small bigger things pan out to the advantage of achieving positive things, it also plays otherwise. You can gradually lose the love you once had for someone, you can slowly deteriorate in your performance at work and get demoted, you can tune out of your-“self” and slowly lose the wheels of your life.
But what’s most important in all of these is that you recognize the small steps in between, the little ways you’re beginning to either climb or fall and make amends. Because it is in these blurry lines, these missable stages, that define your destiny — your future as well. This is also what gives you the urge to exercise gratitude either way it goes.
Don’t ignore the small- bigger things any longer. Because the quote “Rome wasn’t built in a day” is still sustainable till now for a powerful reason such as this article has analyzed.
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