Use Your Special Things Everyday

I read good books that tell me: one should not save the best only for special occasions. Whether it is books, movies, or television shows, they give you examples of when characters saved a bottle of wine or their best china to be used for later. Either the characters die before that or they end up breaking the china as Chandler does in Friends. Sometimes I find that I save my best things for later despite having years of conversations with myself to stop doing this.

The shoes I would usually save for "best" that I now wear to the office. (I bought the black ones, but don't the red look real good also?)

I have a few beautiful timepieces that I absolutely adore but I do not wear one of them because it is way too "special". I understand that it is but shouldn't I be wearing it more just because of that reason? It should be my most frequently worn timepiece looking at it from the point of view of enjoying my best things everyday or even cost per wear. What exactly am I waiting for?

I had a habit of saving candles. Then one day, I decided that I deserve to smell the nice candles on an ordinary Tuesday and here we are smelling all the Diptyque, Jo Malone, and Baobab. They are not just for when guests come over or for date nights.

It's how you live when nobody watches, that makes up your character.

Today is special. It is an occasion. The people I meet today are important, whoever they may be. It is the everyday moments that matter, not just the big occasions. Will you join me as I treat my everyday as a pleasurable experience whether it is a "special" date or not?