It’s the little things.
Sometimes you have to stop and think about the small things, the minute details, the every day acts that go unnoticed.
It’s easy to get consumed by the big things – by the heart break, by the abandonment, by the sadness and the stress. Those things consume you; they get in your head and surround you, pull at you from all sides and eat away at you in every spare moment. They fill the empty space in your mind, they become a body that sits with you on the train on the way to work and lies next to you in your big bed that now feels empty. Try to ignore them. It’s hard, but focusing on these demons is no good; they are demanding enough without you actively paying attention to them.
Focus on the little things. The smile from a colleague at work in the middle of a busy day. The feeling of accomplishment when you manage to succeed in something other than focusing on the negative thoughts in your head and your heart. The friends reaching out to you in ways you hadn’t even thought of. The dinner dates and movie nights that keep your mind off of things. The sitting on the couch with your roommate all day on a Sunday and doing absolutely nothing and being perfectly okay with it. It’s the people. The people are big - bigger than the problems. They are hope, they are caring, they are the strength that you lack for the time being. They are the rehab.
Focus on the little things while the big things are focusing on you. Eventually those small moments of happiness will be the big parts of your life again.
