The other day I was hunting for incense to burn. I must admit something here, I am a huge incense junkie. At one time I had a collection of nearly 100 scents, all hand-dipped in essential oils and each scent stored in a ziploc bag and labeled.
Anyway, I picked a bag at random and saw that it was one of my all time favorites. Instead of burning one I put it back.
“That one is special. I’ll save it for later.”
Do you ever do that with random things? I’ve done it with tea, and clothes, and candles, and lotions, and perfumes, and paints, even books, I kid you not! If there’s an author that I love and she releases a book, I’ll wait to read it, put it off for a later time, when I need something good to read instead of treating myself to the reading of it now. That situation usually turns into “Why didn’t I read this sooner?!”
Sometimes it’s good to use those things that you’re saving for a special occasion.
Especially if you’re one of those people that keeps waiting and waiting until you forget you even have that thing to begin with. Pull out the good china more often than you do. Get dressed up just because you can. I don’t think that it takes anything away from the big occasions.
There’s something to be said for celebrating the everyday.
To say “this day is good enough just because” is an awesome feeling. Each day is wondrous and magical and extraordinary if you allow it to be.
I really love this! There is so much that I save for a 'special occasion'. I tend to forget that every day is literally a reason to celebrate. :) Thank you for reminding me that any day can be a special occasion. <3
This is wonderful and so true!
I do the exact same thing; I want to save something special (for instance, my case of Starbucks frappacinos in the fridge…) for a "special" time, but why not make an ordinary moment special through the thing I'm saving?
Also, Starbucks is impossible to save, because it's just too amazing to resist. :)
I did this exact thing for so many years, and still catch myself every now and then. Yep, with books, tea, candles, even blog posts! I mean, who does that? It's like I would open a really good blog post and then go do something else. I guess to prolong the feeling, maybe? Anywho, I'm all for celebrating everyday. It's always our un-birthday :)
I do it with blogs too! I keep a list of blog post ideas and sometimes I hold off on actually writing them. I learned my lesson when my hard drive crashed and the list of epic blog titles was lost. Sad sad day!
Yay for celebrating! Each day *is* a reason to celebrate because most days life is awesome!
So true and I gotta agree, Starbucks makes every moment better! Yum!
Like most of my generation, I grew up with "save the best [china/crystal/recipes/manners/etc] for when there are important people over, make-do is good enough for just homefolks." Then realizing that every day is special and my family ARE the important people. So, now I only have the "good" china that makes me smile, pull out the stemware for water, make the intricate recipes, and keep the crystal salt cellar on the table everyday – because we are worth it!