A person who notices small things rarely experiences a small life.

Noticing small things is what makes a life feel large, since the size of your experience comes from its texture rather than its events. Someone attentive to detail finds an ordinary day full. Someone waiting for something significant finds most days empty.

Pick up one habit of noticing, whatever suits you. The light at a certain hour, what people do with their hands, the taste of something you eat daily. The largeness comes from the practice, not the material.