June 14, 2023
Updated over 1 year ago
Large tasks in life need to tackled in small steps, day by day. This proverb comes from Swahili:
Haba na haba hujaza kibaba
Little by little fills up the jar
Can you think of other similar proverbs that encourage the same way of thinking?
This saying reminds be of a poem called "Little Things" by Julia Abigail Fletcher Carney:
Little drops of water,
Little grains of sand,
Make the mighty ocean
And the pleasant land.
Thus the little minutes,
Humble though they be,
Make the mighty ages
Of eternity.
Julia Carney composed this poem in 1845 as a student in class -- and she was given only 10 minutes to write it!
