The Great Power in "Little Things"  

Things like that do help, because when you notice those "little things" you realize that your problems are so much smaller than that. When I go outside to lay on the hammock and feel a nice breeze where the trees wave back and forth I notice the beauty in that and I drift away from my problems. Everything else in life is so much bigger than the problems that may haunt you day to day, you just have to remember that and soldier on.

that's an awesome story kitty! And I definitely agree that a butterfly or a flower should make us see how beautiful life can be. Everyone on this earth has problems and negative things going on but sometimes I just have to look outside at the beautiful things God gave us to see and it cheers me up too. Life can be over in less than a second so we need to appreciate what we have to enjoy it more.

hiya angrykitty

I'm glad you've noticed that simple pleasures in life can lift our spirits.
We take nature's gifts for granted and I wonder how many people would notice if they were to disappear. Some things are already an endangered species, but only a fraction of the world's population care enough to make it public and try to do things to prevent their demise.
I actually look around me to find these simple but beautiful pleasures and my favourite is a rainbow. To see all that colour in the sky in a perfect arch and to breathe in the clear air after the rain feels like a new day.

Alice

You are so right.So many of us,go about our day to day lives without thinking about the beauty around us.I love to see the rain fall,and smell the air after a rain.My daughter and son in law live on an orchard,and they depend on the rain.So we do not take it for granted.

LOL! {{Angrykitty}} you and I are so much alike ( mood wise) I too have
had the same black dark clouds hanging over my head too this week;

Mad as hell one minute, sad and in near tears the next; its been a roller coaster
ride from hell is it a FULL MOON WEEK or something?? I don't have a calendar
that tells me that but I would almost bet it is huh?


When I go out to water my flowers each day I usually see a few butterfly's they
always make me smile too, or the beautiful cardinals here; I always say out loud
when I see them, Thanks Mom, I know you are sending them to me; When she was
alive she too loved loved loved the beautiful cardinals and butterfly's;

So yeah seeing those and my hummingbirds always do lift my spirits.

They are indeed precious gifts to us;

Butterflies follow my daughters everywhere. They land in my oldest girls flip flops when we are out at the lake swimming. I tell her its because they like stinky feet. And they also chase my avatar. So butterflies can't help but bring a smile to my face. I'm including a picture of our pet butterfly from last summer.
Wild flowers, and fluffy white clouds in weird shapes force smiles out of me no matter how bad my mood is too.
But above everything else a smile, kiss, or giggle from my kids will turn my mood around so fast I even forget what my issue was to start with.
Kids are great!

Yep, I know wtht you mean, when I see that one special squirrell running up the parking lot towards my house and up the tree fast as he(?) can to visit my cat waiting for him(?) in the kitchen window I always get a chuckle. They even make noises at each other through the screen. Then my cat stars at me and lets out a long na dloud meeeoooowwww so I go get a couple of peanuts and throw them outsie. One at a time these peanuts go with the squirrel down to the corner where he burries them. Just watching this is like watching the animal plant and it makes me smile.

i experienced that feeling too. it seemed as though all the problems have been stuck on me and there was no way out of all the mess. i was too engrossed in what i was feeling that i didnt notice my young boy, age 3 sitting beside me. i then knew he was there when i heard him singing twinkle, twinkle little star...
i turned towards him and saw his angelic smile, that little thing he did for me was all that i could bear. i hugged him tight, thanking him for for the greatest thing he did for me that day. all the bad feeling were set aside from then on. my boy taught me to smile everyday, even through the heaviest of rain, and the gloomiest of day.

I actually live in a very troubled season right now. I also have found those "bright spots" like butterflies or flowers. It does somehow brighten the day to have that little connect with nature!

Oh I so agree with you on that. I can get so upset but has soon as I step outside my backyard I will have a smile on my face in minutes. We have beautiful butterflies flying around plus hummingbirds, roadrunner and rabbits. So for me just to sit outside in my yard I'm alway finding myself smiling at the wonder of nature and its beautiful animals. I will sit there for awhile watching what they are doing. In fact the other day I found a rabbit drinking water from a dish that I have out there for the birds. It was so cute to see.