Don't sweat the small stuff; treasure it.

I'm not one to wake up in the morning, look in the mirror, and say, "Look at you, you handsome devil. Go take on the world!" But there are some things that I do enjoy about myself. One particular, which I've just discovered this past year, happens to be that my day can be made by the smallest thing. I can go from being pretty down about a boring or otherwise lame day to being completely ecstatic about my day from a very simple thing.

One day, I was just floating along wondering about how long the last two periods of my school schedule were going to feel, when I received a text message from a good friend of mine. She said that she had drawn a picture for me, and being the artist that she is, I was excited to see it. It turned out to be a picture of a inside joke that we had made up a few weeks beforehand. She didn't tell me she was drawing the picture and we hadn't necessarily spoke of the joke recently, so it was a complete surprise. It made my day, and I still laugh when I look at the picture.

I don't know if other people find little surprises like this as pleasing as I do, but if it makes their day as great as it does mine, they should.