It's the small things in life that count....

A small chocolate ice-cream is all it took yesterday to make my grade 6s' day!


Because we were doing seasons and one of the vocab words for summer was ICE-CREAM, I decided to take my 60 grade 6s a small tiny little chocolate bar ice-cream thingy that cost me about R60 in total. And wow-how excited they all were-as if it were Christmas!

It seriously got me thinking about the small- almost insignificant-things in life, that if never occurred would never have really been missed.

Yet, these actions or moments or exchanges or whatever small thing it is, makes life so real, so bizarre, so absurd, so extraordinary and so wonderful!

For me...


Yesterday and today...


It was walking into a Travel Agent yesterday with Chen and just booking a flight to China! It is probably rationally a stupid idea, but the rush and absolute delight of it all in the moment-seemed so invigorating and exciting that it is done! We are going! Tickets booked and paid for! Dalian here we come!

It was not about being invited by surprise to a full-on buffet by the Chuncheon district office last night (*which was unbelievably generous), but rather how much delight the chocolate fountain gave everyone -as if it was a new puppy! Everyone was immediately drawn to it-and before we were even seated-my fellow teachers were grabbing marsh-mellow sticks and dunking them as if their lives depended on it!

Another moment was while watching a very famous Korean orchestra and opera singer yesterday evening at the Seoul Art Centre and what really stuck out was watching the exact precision that the conductor of the orchestra moved as if almost in a trans-like dance-but a dance that only half of the steps were being shown to the audience with his right hand and the left hand concealed behind his body showing his true intentions of anguish or urgency for the cellos to give him more oomph!


It's the glimpse of the first beautiful cherry blossom tree in full bloom from a speeding taxi window...


Or receiving an e-mail from a friend back home to tell you-just because they thought you would care-that the project you ran 3 years ago is being cancelled once and for all. And that it wasn't great, but life happens...

Or it's a moment like having one of your best friends tell you, that they are angry with you, even though it is difficult. And that caring so much about someone has the fragile risk of losing that person because you do something that upsets them so or hits so close to home or hurts them, that the relationship seems like it is at it's end. But you continue fighting for it anyway, because the relationship means something in your life. And you try hard to re-patch it-even if you don't know how- because you truly do care!

Or having a friend read to you about life from her latest book- The guide book to atheism! And sharing each other's thoughts on the topic of "religion as an opium for individuals in life", even though it is a sensitive topic.


It's the small things in life that count! Life is too precious to let them pass you by...


bisous
JO