It's the Little Things

Every run is different. It doesn't matter if you run the same route every day, there is always something different about it. It's the little things.

One reason I love reason is I get to see the world around me. After living a life in a car, seeing the world through windows, running gives me the opportunity to be in the world, and not an observer of it. Little things happen which make me so glad to be part of the world.

Yesterday on my run I was coming up on a house where an elderly woman was on her front porch area. I saw she had a cane, and I saw she was trying to do something. As I got closer I saw she was trying to use the cane to maneuver the delivered newspaper so she could try to pick it up. She was having a great deal of trouble, and looked like she was in pain.

I startled her, as I ran up, and said, "Let me help you with that." I picked up the paper and handed it to her. She looked relived she didn't have to bend over and pick it up. She thanked me, and told her to have a great day, and she smiled.

We live in a world now where we spend a good deal of time looking down, texting, surfing, interfacing. We are forgetting to be part of the world. Sometimes it's the little things that happen that help you realize there is a world, we need to be part of it.

Charlie