I love to find meanings in simple things. One evening in Davao, my husband and I cooked dinner. I was in charge of cleaning the ingredients, and I found a heart-shaped potato. For the record, here it is…
I immediately associated it with my happiness, a sign of love that is present in a simple thing like a small potato if you just see it. Love is not talking in big words; love is the small signs in the daily toil that makes you feel good.
On our recent trip to Jomfruland in Norway, I saw a long line of gravel, stones, pebbles, and rocks left by nature after the ice age. I picked two small stones and took this picture. For me, these stones represent the state of the earth now…
The one with only a few green colors on it and mostly brown/black suffered deforestation and pollution. Next to it, the silver one shows the concrete side of the world due to commercialization and industrialization. It may be full of luster, but not colorful at all. It looks lifeless to me.
It’s sad what we have done to Mother Earth. Nature is struggling to survive and the stones carried a personal message to me. As I said: I love symbolism 🙂
Some days ago, my husband surprised me with a pebble and a stone both in heart shapes. I got touched by the sweet gesture. When my husband went for his swimming, I was left thinking about symbolic issues at hand 😉
The first thing that came to mind was how lucky I am to have a loving, responsible, supportive, and understanding husband. Most women I know are dreaming of grand gifts: a fancy car, a big house, or other material stuff, and I don’t deny that I have done that. But the loving gesture of receiving stone hearts is something more. It is like a pretty red rose that speaks silently of love.
Even if I returned the stones to the shore where they belong, the act of simple giving by my husband will be forever in me.
I guess I will never get tired of giving meaning to things. It brightens up the day and keeps me going. I must admit that I’m also working hard to gain success and that my dream is to become rich. But these little things are reminders for me to do it right.
If I look at my life, I can say I am successful enough because I have love and somebody who loves me. I am happy that the humblest things in the universe, a small potato, and some stones, cheer me up and at the same time inspire me to make my other dreams come true 🙂