Simple pleasures & ordinary things

I've been enjoying images from the home of Dutch blogger Something White. Simple beauty, simple pleasures, and the appreciation of ordinary things. Ordinary things seen in a new light. I look around the room I'm in, at all the objects that I just don't see anymore because I'm too busy stressing and rushing around to notice. I see three pieces of black volcanic stone that my husband brought me from the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro which he climbed last year. I see a wood and silver Greek religious icon that a good friend got me when she was on holiday there. I see a collection of poetry books that I haven't read in years. Ordinary things that are meaningful to me. As I get older, I'm starting to realise that it's the simple pleasures, and small unhurried moments that make life worth living. I'm trying to be more conscious of the present moment and to appreciate the ordinary things in my life. Why do we insist on making life so complicated?