ever noticed dew?

Water is pretty the beacon of life. Staying sufficiently hydrated throughout the day keeps us going. But all that is water at a medium to large scale. Ever wondered how significant a water droplet can be? 

I don't think most of us take a step back to imagine where all the water come from. I guess, like everything else around us, there must be a start from someone or somewhere or somewhat. So let's see where a water droplet may lead us to and how we can relate to a tiny drop of water.

The easiest of an example of a water droplet would be dew. Tiny little drops of water that form on leaves or surfaces early in the morning when its pretty cold. For those of us who are fairly early birds, you can catch the sight of dew in the your garden or your backyard. It may not be noticeable but if you notice areas in your home where it is leafy, you quickly notice that some parts of your garden tend to collect a small pool of water. I haven't sat down beside a plant to observe where all the dew goes to but I can logically hypothesize that the dew get accumulated on leaves and as more and more accumulate, the leaves cannot hold the weight of the dew, and then gravity does the rest.

So let's take a step back and ask ourselves, "have we ever stopped to realise when dew forms, where does it go to or what it does for us?". I am guess probably be not because even I never really thought about it, being too busy with life (or at least that's what all of us say). I may have noticed dew on the plants in my backyard but let's face it, we tend not to notice small stuff like this given that we are cultured by society to think BIG, look BIG, no?

Notwithstanding that dew can be the impetus for unruly fungus that inhibit the growth of certain plants, did you know that all that dew either goes into the earth to hydrate the plants around it or evaporates to create the moisture in the air so that we get rain and not dry up?

Whilst its the big waves, and continuous rains that causes the likes of tsunamis and unwanted floods, we often forget its dew that keep our soil furtilised and moisture in the air, and who knows the tiny drop of dew was the advent of great lakes and wonderful scenery that come with it!

I guess if we equate it to our lives, big splashes sure hits the headlines but headlines create expectations and with great expectations comes great pressure, which can turn ugly - famous people in divorce cases, family problems, unwanted publicity and what not. Small little miracles in our lives on the other hand creates the big waves in our hearts - the birth of a newborn, your first pay check, your first car......... Small little miracles are like dew in that they don't make the news but it complete us from the inside!