The best version of " you "

I've always believed that I'm a perfection seeker. I want people to be always impressed by what  I say and do. I want to be this type of girl people feel fun to be around, the type of girl people praise in her absence, the girl who people find amazing, lively and flawless. This made me think of the steps I'm supposed to follow in order to make them feel that way; how I should act or how I should speak.

The idea was nothing but a useless constraint on my whole life . I couldn't act freely o and randomly as always. When I realized how stupid these thoughts were, the first thing that occurred to my mind was the sentence everybody believes in; " nobody is perfect ". Therefore there's no need to seek perfection because it's a thing I'd never be able to achieve.

I kept trying to apply what I came up with until last Friday. Someone was talking about how to deal with kids and she said ( I don't remember the exact words ) :
" متخليش الطفل يحط نفسه في قالب مش بتاعه عشان انت تقوله انه شاطر او عشان تجيبله حاجة حلوة"
For more explanation; maybe the kid you're dealing with doesn't even like the thing he/she is doing but he/she is doing it so that he/she hears you praising him/her.

Applying this to my case, I came up with a new theory. Perfection can be achieved by anyone. Our main problem is that we've never thought about it from our own perspective but from other people's perspective. We are worried about how the others will see us although what's more important is how we see ourselves. So YOU can be perfect with everything you got. Just make good use of what makes you special and start the journey of being the best version of you.

Happiness is ... the little things.

Precede reading each sentence of the coming ones by closing your eyes for a while. A newly born baby holding your finger, a child smiling at your face, your parents' hug, the conversations you have with your grandparents, the look of pride your parents have for you, reading Qur'an and feeling like Allah is talking to you, sitting on the beach during sunset or sunrise, walking under the rain, recalling memories with your childhood friends, when a friend of yours knows you're feeling down without you telling him/her, when you know that someone has said a good thing about you during your absence.

How can these things affect any of us? Positively I suppose? Make us feel well? Happy? Maybe ALIVE?

How simple these things are! What efforts or cost would it take anyone to do any of the things I've mentioned? Absolutely nothing.

They are " the little things " ladies & gentlemen. A definition? A set of words or actions that are so simple to be said or done yet they make you feel like you're in the seventh heaven. They are tiny details that have so many great meanings in them and to me, they mean the most. That's why I've never been able to ignore such details whenever any of my friends asked me to, justifying this by that it would be mentally exhausting. I can't deny it isn't but, every single detail to me is an indication or a proof to something or a gate to some hardly recalled memories.

The greatness of these details doesn't usually lie in them, but in what you feel after they happen, ultimate happiness.