Life is in the Details

Paying attention is easy and it is hard. We go through our days running, our minds already onto the next thing before we've even had a chance to get through the present. I have found that if I take even one thing in my day and really pay attention to it that it adds so much to that thing, whatever it may be. It could be as mundane as really looking at my favourite flower. I have an arrangement sitting on my dining room table. Something that I often bring into our home to add colour and life. Today, I decided to stop and reallly look at it. I noticed the colour of the centre of the blooms, the texture of the petals, the shape of the bouquet. Easy because it took 10 seconds and the awareness of this ordinary object somehow enriched that moment. The hard part is remembering to stop.