#artofappreciation

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Art of Appreciation 12: The Smallest

The hard-working, sweaty and dirty man, the smiling kid at window of the train, the cooking old lady surrounded by her cats, the swaying trees on a breezy afternoon, the vast and the almost endless blue sky; all of those things are the simplest yet the smallest things to be noticed in our life. They’re the tiniest of the smallest and the unnoticed of the noticeable. They are the ones that are needed to be look forward and the things to be cared to. They’re life’s hidden treasures and the moment’s greatest pleasures.

It’s life itself, living and showing its own existence.

Look everywhere and notice the simplest things. How does water boil? When do the stars bloom at night? Why do birds sing at the morning? Questions that are never asked to one’s self, questions that are never pondered because we’re too busy on thinking about the larger things. Smell the roses, taste the air, look at the music and the harmony of people. When was the last time you appreciated a simple concern and compliment?

Life itself gives a chance to everyone to be a being, to be a part of the system not just a watcher of everything else. We must be one with the smallest, be with them and appreciate them. Because without them, the larger things you’re thinking about will never be larger and the same.

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Art of Appreciation 11: Motivations

A very common feeling these busy days, I find it very positive and enlightening to be encouraged by people I know and even by those whom I barely know. I felt blessed and somehow thought; what a wonderful gift I'm receiving.

 From the start, I have this burning heart of mine. Maybe it's a passion of leadership, a given gift to me. I lead without question and when in groups, I tend to take part on the bigger piece. Luckily, it's a default personality of mine. It's a part of personality mine to be grateful for. Optimism is a very rare trait (for most people, it's just a feeling for them, not even a trait) and I know, what kept it burning is the words and the support my friends say and give to me. I'm not pushed but rather guided to walk, not to run, accordingly to the path and goals I am.

 A hint of appreciation, to motivate someone requires a greater conceptualization in one's self to be done. Appreciate and motivate; everything what you do to others will be given back to you. So the lesson is? Just keep it positive.

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Art of Appreciation 10: Efforts

Efforts: require motivation and encouragement to be done. It’s an action that needs to be thought twice before giving whole-heartedly. Effort is one of the precious action and thing that exist in this world.

 Effort is important to those who give it whilst it’s more important to those who receive it. It comes from the heart and executed by our body profoundly. To be done, the most important motivation must be given: with life or death as a deciding factor with better or worse as a planned choice. Effort is crucial in a way it can change lives of those who use and doesn't use it. It must be shown or felt, weighed and balanced, too much and too less is always bad especially in it. It affects any result of a factor in life and decides the outcome of an action whether how good or bad it will be. Effort has always been important in controlling the harmony of life, like a variable in an equation, it always determine the answer and trigger reactions for the whole.

 To appreciate by showing effort; in that way the people has never failed to express their appreciation to others with the use of it. We must be careful though (but yet, it’s unavoidable) that every effort received must be equal to the effort given. An unmeasured variable in an equation, it has the power to make things better or worse.

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Art of Appreciation 8: Comfort

A light-headed feeling.

A floating state it is.

A feeling without any obstacles shouldered between yourself and the other. It’s a common thing and an unstoppable feeling. It’s the openness and the normality to each other. It is the feeling of comfort.

The strangeness of the diversity is a mystic thing to comprehend. People possess invisible barriers for the sole purpose of protection; a defence which serves as a filter in meeting others. We have this tendency to choose the one we are comfortable to. It’s easy to find people like us whom we can share the things we can only appreciate. But for that person who appreciates us whole, our other half maybe, they’re the real ones who have seen our invisible walls.

It’s not about bringing down each other walls but rather understanding and crossing them. Reaching the top of someone’s wall is an achievement, a thing which is only done through time and time only. A subtle move it is, to climb the walls of others even though we don’t understand it. Crossing the barriers and reaching your heart; it can only be done by people who we trust and the most comfortable with.

Time comes where we’ll bring down our walls to that person. The real reason they’re able to reach the inside of us is because we let it down purposely. Despite our differences and such, it’s a real mystery to find comfort to another person.

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Art of Appreciation 7: Pleasures

We always tend to look for something that’ll satisfy our simplest wants and needs. But people’s satisfaction always vary and not the same. Emotional needs are the hardest one to attain. They’re rare and hard to find unlike material things. The factor about emotions is, they aren’t solid and therefore can’t be touched and hold on to by our hands.

It’s the security of having something beyond our reach. It’s the comfort of that feeling that we met our need in that level. It’s the relief of achieving our wants in the ways we never thought of. It’s the satisfaction of getting the simplest pleasures in life.

Food, shelter and education; they’re the basic needs of men. These things keep us living but there is other sustenance we need to keep on going for more. The feeling of love is the most unseen, the most unnoticed of all. It alters everything once you taste it and can replace anything once you got it.

People’s pleasures always vary. They weigh heavy for the needy one, yet they’re lighter for the appreciative. Let’s not forget that all material things can give us the satisfaction we always crave of. A little pinch of love can provide the thing we want and need beyond what we wanted and needed.

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Art of Appreciation 6: Silence

What’s the best thing to do while living? It is to love.

There are endless ways to love a person. Some prefer it expressively, whilst other do it rather discreetly but appreciatively. People always want to express their love with words, as it there’s nothing more direct than saying it from your mouth, truly and sincerely, but what about silence? Is it still golden in the name of love?

There are different kinds of people existing in every corner. Each of them speaks the language of love in varieties. Each of them appreciates the other in their own way. Many have failed to understand this: that people are comparable but still unique. There are endless strings of words to put a thought in a meaning but still possess one reason to make it happen. Silence is an answer. Every time the mouth doesn’t say much, the heart always makes it through the minds. It can mean many possibilities but still, a mere silence can also be a symbol of comfort to those who understand it.

There are infinite ways to appreciate. People practice it in their own ways and master it like an art. The art of appreciation is the most unnoticed perfection in life, as few can only see it, and the fewer can use it.

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Art of Appreciation 5: Sentimentality

Value can’t be found in things easily. You can find it in some things you have: high value to those things you bought after saving money for a long time and sentimental value to those small things that has been given to you by special people or in a special time. Believe it or not, there are times that we find ourselves holding on those small things with sentimental value.

That candy wrap she gave to you, the first piece of yellow pad she ever shared to you, even the only text she sent to you, admit or not, those things are what you hold on to most.

What makes it so special is the giver itself. It shows how important that person is, how we care and cling to that simple memory that she/he gave to you. Appreciation takes in, in its smallest and simplest way. The importance of a person can’t be showed more in that littlest act.

It’s funny how valuing works. It’s weird how sentimentality takes place. It just proves that people’s heart find its way on its own. How touching it is that we can appreciate in the most unexpected ways.

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Art of Appreciation 4: Passion

Love has made its way through the different hearts of men and women in time. It stood still through the hard times; it became a stronghold for those who feared; a hope for the ones who don’t believe, and a hidden bond for people to strengthen.

Passion is the burning sensation, a wildfire that keeps love growing within its deepest intentions to appreciate your partner in any way possible.

Love does look beyond one’s imperfections and made everything more than an admiration. It’s a care which doesn’t expect a return but a mutual trust to develop something greater and fortifies to make it better. Unconditional as it can be, Love is the greatest appreciation a human can receive. It’ll one make perceive life beyond its beauty while staring at its challenges positively.