The more I think about it, The more convinced I am that many people in "society" tend to overlook some of the more routine things that happen every day, and that mark the day and the season.
Many things are constant--we see them, we hear them, we expect them, and without consciously realizing that these same things, events, are part of the ongoing experience for the moment. These same small things, also bring up a series of memories, recollections, feelings, that transport us to other times and places.
Yet, the absence of these small things may go un-noted, un-noticed, until someone points out the absence of (whatever it is...), because these small things are not absolutely essential to the total experience of what a person sees, thinks, feels, remembers--rather, the events that occur in that setting could happen anyway. Or would they (still happen)?
The "small things" that happen in any environment contribute to the total experience of the moment (series of moments), in qualitative ways that enhance the experience of the moment to differentiate that moment, or series of moments, from other times, or experiences, even though all of these situations may be very similar.
The qualitative evaluation of a "moment", and the "small things" that make up the subjective experience of the moment, are critical pieces of the individual context for the person who experiences that moment, creating "difference" in one's perspective, from that of another person's percpective on the same thing.
Each person sees things in a slightly different manner than someone else who shares the moment.
This idea is NOT anything new. Perspective is, and has been, a relative relationship between and among people, objective and subjective things/environments, and the individual perspectives of those who inhabit the moment.
Again--I'm not saying anything especially new, yet, my application of this concept will be, perhaps, unique to the small moment(s) that I apply them to.
As will the applications that others make be unique to theirr small moments.
So how would we know that something is a small thing that matters, makes a difference, something that differentiates a moment from another?
An example: lightening bugs. Consider a summer evening, with and without the lightening bugs in the scene outside your front door....Consider the sounds of summer--what are the sounds of summer for you? How about the singing of locusts during the heat of the day?
How do we know how these things matter? How do they make a difference?
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