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12d • Life, Bali & Nami Bits
This made me CRY. Then I SMILED. And wow, the IMPACT ❤️
This morning, I finally opened up that message from my mum. Felt kinda bad it took me two days. We had spoken and I had messaged her… but the one message she really wanted me to read just sat there unopened. This morning I did it, and it made me smile, it made me cry, its made my heart melt, and then it made me want to share this little story.
My mum lives in France and she absolutely LOVES Christmas cards. Like genuinely loves them like tea, it’s her thing. Every year she sits down and writes them to everyone. Old school teachers, childhood friends, people she’s known forever, people she probably hasn’t seen in years, and I’m talking 50+ years ago.
She really puts heaps of love and thought into them, she even buys the paper kind in the summer. She has a old address book, who even has these any more.
Every single year she asks me, “Where can I send your Christmas card?” And every year I have to explain (again) that Bali / Indonesia post is well… a thing.
Sometimes you have to pay big tax on stuff coming in. We don’t get things delivered to our doors, we have to collect them from the post office, they assess the item, and then just decide how much money you should pay. I’ve literally paid tax on a card before, and also had to pay tax on my own birthday presents. Pfffttt.
So she sends me e-cards instead. Now I’ll be totes honest, like duh… e-cards aren’t really my thing. I’m not sat there buzzing AF like “oh my giddy aunt YES AN E-CARD”. But… I still open it. Even though, sorry Mum, it took me two days. Every time it HITS…
Because she always tries to put something in there that feels like me. There’s usually a dog on it. This time there were cats, two of them, still fluffy hey, and that made me chuckle.
Then she always follows it up with messages like “Did you get your card?” “Did you see it?” “Did it come through?” like she’s excitedly waiting for that little confirmation that it landed. (I have not had that message yet, so I will message to say thank you first)
This whole thing, it just made me think about those small gestures.
Like really diddy ones. The ones that don’t look like much on the outside, the ones that probably don’t seem that exciting or impressive. But how much they actually do matter.
Not just to the person sending them, but to the person receiving them too. And also how easy it is to miss them if we’re not paying attention, hands up guilty.
Because on my end I could easily be like “oh yeah, an e-card, whatever”.
But when I actually stop for a second, it’s like… that’s effort. That’s care. That’s thought. That’s someone thinking about you and wanting to connect, even in a small way. And writing this is bringing tears of gratitude to my eyes, my heart and chest feel those little pangs of love, loneliness and whole shebang of emotion swelling up
this time of year just brings that stuff up more. Do you feel this too?
Those little gestures, the check-ins, the messages, the “I was thinking about you” moments.
I would love us to share… what small gestures are you sending out at the moment?
What small gestures are you receiving?
And do you actually notice them when they happen?
Because I’m realising they count way more than we give them credit for.
Yes, that was me having a raw emotional moment, because the impact of that e-card… was more than small. It was beautiful AF x x x
THOSE SMALL GESTURES MATTER… ❤️ (screenshot from the card)
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This made me CRY. Then I SMILED. And wow, the IMPACT ❤️
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