Sometimes, "Little" Is All You Need

in #life6 years ago

There's something I have noticed about most people. They tend to burn themselves out over a lot of things they believe really matter to others.

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The sad truth is, at the end of the day, they fail to impress the very people they wore themselves out for. Which leads them to mistake these people's indifference for ungratefulness and an unappreciative spirit. Let's take a lesson from the event that occured between Jesus and Martha.

Martha wore herself out trying to prepare different sumptuous meals for her visitor and friend, Jesus. In her mind, she's doing great. Damn!, Jesus will congratulate her and probably put her name in the book of life. He might even recommend her to one of His apostles, seeing that she has mad cooking skills. He will be so pleased, she must have thought. Unfortunately, her extravagance failed to yield pleasant results as Jesus pointed out to her that a meal or two would have been better than all of these. In a way, Jesus told Martha that little things mattered a lot more than trying to do too much.

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Most people in Martha's position would have thought " This Jesus, what an ingrate!. How can he make small of all my efforts. So unappreciative", and they would have probably told everyone who cared to listen to them that Jesus is such an ingrate.

Martha didnt. She understood Jesus, realizing that she was "doing too much", which ate into the quality time and conversation she would have enjoyed at the Lord's feet.

What exactly am I tryna say here? Lotta times, we feel the big things really matter. We ache to please people so much that we start doing too much, of things that don't even matter to them. Our efforts meet with indifference because they can't comprehend why we're doing all of these, when what they really want us to do go unattended to. We give so much only to realize that there's still a void to fill. And we begin to think... "This person is impossible. He is ungrateful. She doesn't appreciate my efforts".

Maybe we need to slow down, take a break from doing our lots and find out what really matters to the other person. What truly makes them tick. What makes them happy. Don't assume that you know. You'd be surprised to learn that you've been doing it wrong all along, and what they really expect doesn't burn as much effort as you have exhausted.

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Hmm... Agreed. Sometimes people tend to do a Lotta stuff so as to please the ones they care about, not being careful to understand what it is they might really need. This doesn't scale, more often that not, and it might lead one to feelings of regrets and inadequacy. Who knows, maybe they never needed it anyways. Is best to not stress for anyone, especially when they don't need those things. You'd hurt yourself, you'd burn-out.

Uncleeeeeeeeee

Thats just life...
Stuff like this are bound to happen..

All you can do is learn...

All that's relevant in life are quite simple and easy. Most time we focus on the bigger picture, failing to see that the smaller pictures most times, is all that matters....

... or that the big picture is made by pieces of smaller pictures

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