The Importance of Unimportant Things

I have been very very busy of late. That being said, I've accomplished nothing of any importance in the last two or three weeks with the exception of sitting in the waiting room for my daughter to finish with her surgery. I have also taken to reading a few good books and thought a lot on exactly what is important in life.

I will spare you the tedious details of work and socially contracted committments from the last two weeks and merely sum up what these things have taught me. The importance of unimportant things. While work pays the bills and there is usually a sense of satisfaction gained from certain social commitments, neither of these things provide me an increased sense of self worth. That being said, playing board games with my step-son and making sure he only wins so much as to still enjoy it without winning so much that he thinks he should win all the time, sitting on the couch with my wife watching the same 4 seasons of The Big Bang Theory over and over again until we can quote them verbatim, and laying on the floor with my daughter while she watches the same "Mickey" movie over and over again, were all things that I did not get a chance to do these past few weeks. And these are the things that are truly important. These are the things that prove to me that living is more than just waking up every morning.

Sometimes, you don't realize just exactly what is important until you've had time to live your life without it. Unfortunately, sometimes when we begin living without something, we can't always get it back.

Enjoy what you have while you have it. And make sure you know just how important it is. Everything I had to do without the past few weeks, I was fortunate enough to get back. We aren't always as lucky.