I love to find meanings in simple things. One evening in Davao, my husband and I cooked dinner. I was responsible for cleaning the ingredients, and I found a heart-shaped potato.
I immediately associated it with my happiness. It is 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 make you feel good.
My husband surprised me some days ago with a pebble and a stone, both in heart shapes. The sweet gesture touched me. When my husband went for his swim, 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 dream of grand gifts: a fancy car, a big house, or other material stuff, and I don’t deny that I have dreamed of that, too. 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 had returned the stones to the shore where they belong, my husband’s act of simple giving will be forever with 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 financially stable. 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 🙂
