Lately I've learned something about relationships: you have to appreciate the small things. While I've always had a knack for mastering this in life, in relationships I tend to strive for "over perfection." True that spontaneity and originality are essential spices in life, but, as with any spice, a dash is all that's needed in the recipe.

When I slow down and breathe life in I find that the things which strike me as most beautiful are oftentimes the everyday. In all my relationships I am beginning to recognize a pattern in the seemingly mundane, and it's this: it's not so mundane. Some of my fondest memories are going to the grocery store with a friend and just being goofy, or cleaning up the room with a roommate and having a contest to see who can find the best junk on the floor to make a new invention (hey, I never said mundane had to be dry). Even things as simple as studying or running errands can in time develop a unique friendship. Maybe, I'm learning, it's when you're with people in their everyday, and in your everyday, that you can learn to truly appreciate both their simplicity and their intricacies -- creating a genuine intimacy.