As We Digress: The Little Things in Life

To know: to possess knowledge or information about.
To realize: to understand/perceive (an idea or situation) mentally.

Fact: human beings are not perfect.

We all know that we are imperfect creatures; yes, we have intelligence and brains, we have the ability to think, to know, and to be aware of ourselves and all that encircles us, but this doesn't make you "feel bad". In fact, it makes you feel superior to others because you know all of these things, be them mundane or of utter significance. The fact is, the action of knowing makes them equal in value, because knowing, while important for us to realize truths, is not realization in itself, thus whatever information you may have in your possession is all of the same value because it does not affect you.

Fact: human beings take forever to realize things.

Realization on the other hand, is a more superior form of knowing. It is the step that comes after knowing. It is important to know in order to realize; without intelligence and brains, the ability to think, to know and to be aware of ourselves and all that encircles us, we cannot realize. Realization, unlike knowledge, can be hurtful. It's a process of knowing, realizing, getting hurt, taking action and moving on.

Once you realize you have done a mistake, well, let's not kid ourselves, we don't only make one mistake. When you have made quite a handful of mistakes you know of course what you did, we all know what we do, yes, we know, but we never, ever realize the magnitude (or triviality) of which from the beginning. We all need a wake-up call, a reality check, a slap on the face, perhaps several times, to actually realize this stuff, and it's hard, it's difficult to know one's mistakes, to be at peace with yourself after you've realized what you did, and the most difficult thing would be wallowing in both self-pity and resentment at once and then move on, making a promise to yourself that you'd never do the same mistake ever again, half knowing that the constant presence of a certain catalyst will always lead to constant same-mistake-making, forming a vicious circle.

Fact: the worst mistake anyone can make would be the one made against oneself

Making mistakes with other people, almost always has a solution, even if the parties involved choose to never talk again, it's still a solution. But making a mistake to yourself is just horrible: you are yourself. You can't stop talking to yourself, you can't resent yourself because then people would resent you, you can't judge yourself because your self-esteem would hit rock-bottom and no one would ever like you because even you don't like yourself, you can't split yourself into two entities (well you can, but that's another story for another day), and you absolutely cannot think that you don't deserve happiness because then you really don't.

You can always take solace in the fact that no one is mistake-free, especially mistakes made against themselves, but one should learn and one should avoid and one should help fellow human beings.

You can always take solace in the little things in life; the little smiles, the little nice songs you like, the little practices you do unto others to make them happy. I know one little thing about this: giving a massage to your favorite little person, with their little shoulders, little backs and little feet and their demand for more massage time, that makes them giggle with their little mouths and little eyes is absolutely one thing worth living for.