To know there's a cosmic component to the strife

The big things are love, justice, the ocean, listening, who becomes president, and how someone makes you feel when they're smiling at you from a blanket in the park. The small things are tody's headlines, social media likes, feeling eerie on a street by yourself, a good crepe, microwaving your coffee. In a life, we're trying to cram the big things into a small day. The small will weigh you down if you let it. When I look at my life, I'm won't be Atalanta, chasing the golden apples flung for distraction.