Small Pleasures in Life Are Never Small

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 getaway should be a lesson in parachuting, rather than a day spent enjoying the clouds in the sky; it feels weird to even admit that taking a bus ride might yield more pleasure than owning a car for your daily commute.

Yet, the irony of pleasure is how abundant and, sometimes defiant, it can turn out to be. Pleasures do not automatically gather at the most expensive mall. Pleasures can avoid us during some of your most fancy holidays. They are famously prone to shy away during emotional troubles, and occasional bad moods. A disagreement over the kinds of food to eat can end up ruining all perks of a fancy restaurant.

 Some pleasure may look very minor - catching up with an old friend, looking through photos of when you were a kid, enjoying a hot shower - and yet if appropriately seized, activities of these sort can be some of the most gratifying that we can have.

 Appreciating what is at hand is not about taking the easy way out. It certainly is not meant for any criticism on the lack of ambitions. There is just no point in chasing the future unless we have learnt to be more attuned to the modest moments that are presently in front of us.

 Fundamentally, the pleasures of life, no matter small or big, is not a direct evaluation of how much they have on offer; rather, it is a reflection of how much good in life that we have unfairly neglected. A small pleasure is certainly a great pleasure waiting to receive its long overdue recognition.

 The key to truly appreciating the small pleasures is in believing in our own inner voice a little more. Life is too short to wait for all the good things in life to be accepted by the masses before we allow ourselves to be fascinated by them. We need to allow that soft yet powerful inner voices of our own to manifest and that we are onto something, even though may others may not have thought so.

 We are dominated by the need to contend for better relationships, career, as well as personal lives. In which case, restless is then synonymous with life accomplishments. But whenever we get so concerned with the elusive levels of living ourselves, we oftentimes miss out on the humble pleasures that are closer to home.

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