An appreciation of the sparklies

Life is a journey, many people set themselves a goal and rush headlong towards it. That's fine, but in doing so they miss so much. Imagine driving from one city to the next your sole focus being the arrival at the destination. Between those two cities there are a plethora of sights and experiences that you'll miss in your haste to get to where you think you really want to be. These sights and experiences are what I call the sparklies, I call them that in honor of my own discovery of them one spring morning in New England. I was parked in an ambulance on the side of Rt 135 overlooking a pond and I noticed the sunlight reflecting from the surface of the water, the beauty of this moment would have been lost on me were I rushing to get someplace else, but for that moment there was just me, my work partner who has since become my life partner and the sparklies.....the world was rushing by, ignorant of the beauty they were missing it was almost like those sparklies belonged to her and I alone. I suppose that was when I began to fall in love with her...of course I didnt realise it then.
The sparklies arent neccessarily just a moment of natural beauty, but they can be a feeling or an experience , a moment of tranquility or the arrival in your life of a person that seems to make everything fall into place.
My partner has become the very brightest of my sparklies and I truly love her.