Appreciating the small things

I woke up to the sun-light blazing through my bright orange curtains. They were ready to be peeled right open to display the wonder of the world outside. I don’t know how twelve hours and a change of the clock seem to make the world of difference. Maybe it’s all in my head, some sort of placebo effect, but I swear waking up this morning was like waking up somewhere new. The grass seemed just that little bit greener, the birds in my back garden just a little bit happier. And with all of that, so was I. 

My day was more productive, to-do lists completed in record time and even time for a break in the middle. And knowing that I could go out for a bike ride at 6 o’clock on all of my favourite public footpaths, through fields after fields of greenery and wildlife, without worry about whether it would be light enough led to more productivity. The bike ride gave me the opportunity to appreciate my surroundings more and more, in a cycle of positivity that I’m determined to seize.

So even if it is a placebo effect, I’m always appreciative of our crazy little thing we do with the clocks to signify the start of summer. In a world consumed by technology, where the common lifestyle involves rushing from one place straight to the next, it’s so easy to let the little things in life pass us by. It’s not often we take time to appreciate the way the sun bounces off a lake that casts a warm glow everywhere, or the stranger in the street that smiles at us as we pass, but it’s something I’m trying to do more and more.


Keep smiling,
Kathryn x