You are allowed to take notes on the small things, even if they’re not extraordinary. Let yourself explore all the fragments that make up the whole, even brief encounters. These moments are often overlooked, but if we write them down, we might look back over time and find that they held more value than we initially realized.
When thinking about the conversations we have, it’s not always just the topic of discussion that matters. It could be the warmth we feel when talking with someone, the familiarity of someone we know well, or the energetic curiosity when it’s someone new. Taking note of the ways we have shared moments with others might seem insignificant in the moment, but they are more than that. Like sand, these moments can slip through our hands, but when we look around, we recognize that the same sand is still a part of the landscape…a landscape that grows. A landscape that you can move through and continue to find new connections in.
What matters here is knowing that even if something feels fleeting, it doesn’t mean it doesn’t matter. It’s still a part of a larger landscape, and you are allowed to take note of it. Let these moments accumulate. Take photos of ordinary things and write down fleeting moments. Come back to them again and again, and be surprised by the vastness of the landscape in which you have been living.
If something felt special to you––even if just for a moment, let it be special. If the conversation that night felt like poetry, then let it be poetry. If even the most brief moment of joy felt like sunlight shining in, then that sunshines. Even when it feels fleeting, you are allowed to engage with the bittersweet feeling that it matters. – Morgan Harper Nichols
