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Small Pleasures in Life Are Never Small

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We are often bombarded with connotations about the sort of things that would seemingly make us feel happy. The very idea that all the things that we should enjoy in order to attain fulfillment ought to be Rare , Expensive, Popular  and of Grand Proportion .  These preconceived notions in the face of today's society are not entirely wrong, but it has inadvertently reveal a cruel and unfavourable bias against the widely available , the cheap , ordinary and simple scale . When someone in your Facebook friends list posted getaway trip photos to the Maldives on a private jet, we unquestionably infer that they must have had a better time than someone who cycles at a local park; we would imagine that visiting the Uffizi gallery in Italy is always going to be more pleasurable than reading a novel in your backyard garden; A dinner at a downtown steakhouse sounds a good deal more impressive than a simple home-cooked meal; it feels more natural to think that the highlight of a weekend g