If you’re a fan of Malaysia’s MixFM, you should know that they are coming out with this new program called “dearly deported” or something. It’s a competition where the participants tell the DJs who they (the participants) really want to meet. The ‘who’ must be someone they’ve not met for a long long time.

So the other day DJs went to 1 part of KL to interview people. Their question was “if you were given a chance to meet someone you’ve not met for many many years…for 10 minutes, what would you do?”

Some of the answers:

• To have a good chat with the person and his/her family.
• To chop onion with her mum, just like the old time.
• To go for a walk in the place they’ve played together as kids.

As you can see, all of these things are very very simple. Some would call these “small little things”. There’s no big hotel, no luxurious restaurant, no cool gadgets (like Apple IPhone), no big BMWs. Nothing big at all. Ok, maybe there are, but not mentioned because those are not the point. All those things are so simple that a normal and fortunate person can do them anytime, anyday…but most of these normal and fortunate person never appreciate such ‘little things’. They always look up at the big things. And little do they know that sometimes, these small things don’t happen twice. They are there once, and they’re gone. You might never get them back.

All I can say is, big things are there in the sky for a reason. They are your inspirations, your goals, your dreams. They do matter in our life but what really matters now is the little things that happen in your life. In fact, they are everywhere. So start to pay attention. Notice them. Appreciate them. And perhaps 10 years down the road, you will look back to today and say “I’m glad I’ve enjoyed the small things that life threw me 10 years ago”.