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Pequeñas cosas que nos hacen grandes - Small things that they make us big (esp-eng)

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Pequeñas cosas que nos hacen grandes.

Vivimos en un mundo material y materialista. El dinero y las posesiones hacen fuerza en todo lo que decidimos, lo que tenemos, y casi en lo que somos. Un perfil de grandeza, en el mundo actual, puede estar definido por el dinero que poseemos o no.

Sin embargo, me gustaría invitarles a ver conmigo cuantas cosas pequeñas tenemos alrededor, y qué grandes nos pueden hacer.

A veces pienso en mi hija, y en algunas actitudes tan "de niños" que me mueven el corazón. Otras tantas me tomo tiempo para observar a las personas que pasan a mi lado. También contemplo maravillado el universo imponente que nos contiene. De todo ello he sacado muchas lecciones en lo que va de mi vida.

El rostro feliz de un hijo, cuando recibe un regalo. Muchas veces es muy simple, tal vez solo un cubo de madera. Pero su sonrisa, algo tan pequeño, nos hace grandes.
O la felicidad que les causa cuando nos regalan una flor, o un dibujo, y sus ojos brillan de alegría al vernos tan contentos. No cuesta nada, pero nos hace grandes.

La sonrisa de un amigo, de una amiga, de alguien que nos quiere y a quien queremos. Nos entibia el corazón. Es algo tan simple, pero nos hace tan grandes.

Expresar gratitud, y recibir gratitud. Un gesto tan simple, pero que nos hace grandes decir gracias.

Tomarse unos minutos al día para contemplar lo que nos rodea...
Un amanecer fresco, con los pájaros cantando.
Un paisaje de otoño, o de primavera.
El mar y sus olas golpeando las rocas.
Los caracolitos a la orilla del mar.
Un atardecer.
La lluvia suave.
La luna en lo alto.
Un cielo repleto de estrellas.
Nos puede tomar solo unos minutos contemplarlos, pero vale más que todo nuestro tiempo.

El abrazo de un amigo.
El consuelo que cura.
Las palabras justas en cada momento.
Un beso lleno de amor.
El cariño que se expresa sin palabras.
Decir que amamos y saber que nos aman.
Compartir un momento.
Una carta esperada.
Un tiempo entre amigos.
La calidez del hogar.
¡Cuantas cosas pequeñas y simples tenemos todos los días a nuestro lado, que nos hacen tan grandes!

Tal vez, entonces, esas personas que se ocupan todo el tiempo en acumular cosas materiales: dinero, propiedades, y no se dan tiempo para contemplar y disfrutar todas estas cosas simples y pequeñas, sean realmente pobres. Porque tanto afán de riquezas les hace pobres, porque todo ese afán no les permite disfrutar de la bendición enorme, abundante, impagable de contemplar las cosas que de verdad nos hacen grandes.

Espero no llegar a ser así. Que mi necesidad de dar lo mejor en cuanto a sustento y necesidades físicas a mi familia y a mí mismo, no nuble mis ojos y me haga perder las pequeñas cosas que de verdad nos hacen grandes.

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Small things that they make us big.

We live in a material and materialistic world. The money and the possessions make force in all that we decide, what we have, and almost in what we are. A profile of greatness, in the current world, it can be defined by the money that we possess or not.

However, I would like to invite you to see how many small things we have around, and how big they can make us.

Sometimes I think of my daughter, and in some "children" attitudes that move my heart. Other so many ones take time to observe people that pass to my side. I also contemplate amazed the imposing universe that contains us. I have taken out many lessons through my life, from everything that.

The happy face of a son, when he/she receives a gift. Many times it is very simple, perhaps just a wooden cube. But his/her smile, something so small, it makes us big.
Or the happiness they feel when they give us a flower, or a drawing, and their eyes shine with happiness when seeing us so happy. It doesn't cost anything, but it makes us big.

The smile of a friend, of somebody that loves us and to who we love. It warms our heart. It is something so simple, but it makes us so big.

To express gratitude, and to receive gratitude. Such a simple expression, but it makes us big to say thank you.

To take some minutes a day to contemplate what surrounds us...
A fresh dawn, with the birds singing.
An autumn landscape, or of spring.
The sea and their waves hitting the rocks.
The little snails on the sea shore.
An evening.
The soft rain.
The moon in the sky.
A replete sky of stars.
It can take just some minutes to contemplate them, but it is worth more than all our time.

The hug of a friend.
The comfort that cures.
The fair words in each moment.
A kiss full with love.
The affection that is expressed without words.
To say that we love and to know that they love us.
To share a moment.
A prospective letter.
A time among friends.
The warmth of the home.
How many small and simple things we have every day to our side, and they make us so big!

Perhaps, then, those people that spend all the time in accumulating material things: money, properties, and they give no time to theirselves to contemplate and enjoy all these simple and small things, are really poor. Because so much desire of wealth makes them poor, because that whole desire doesn't allow them to enjoy the enormous, abundant blessing, unpayable of contemplating the things that really make us big.

I hope not to end up being this way. That my necessity to give the best for sustenance and physical necessities to my family and myself, don't cloud my eyes and it makes me lose the small things that really make us big.

Será otra vezLuz

Comments

zenya 18. January 2008, 21:45

HI Pablo,

It's the simple things in our lives that make us human
and remind us that life is simple if only we stop
and smell a rose from time to time.

To take the time to smile at a child which isn't yours
to pet a puppy to smell the wind, the taste water,
to thank God for giving us all ........
the simple things

Thank you for sharing this wonderful post

Fati

pbuydid 19. January 2008, 19:43

Hi!
Thank you for your words! I'm agree with you; simle things make us human.

Sometimes I see people who gets lost because they are looking for money, and they aren't happy. But we have a lot of things to feel happiness in this world, simple things very important for our lives.

Thanks again!

zenya 20. January 2008, 14:47

Hi Pablo,

Yes, you are so right they are so busy getting rich they forget
the richess are the simple things in life that money can't buy.

Thank you for this wonderful post ..


Fati

ViviDee 27. January 2008, 21:37

Pablo, te pillé :wink:

Revisa esto para que veas de que te hablo http://my.opera.com/ViviDee/blog/2008/01/27/pillada-p :D

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