A small sad thing is watching your best friend fade into just a friend.

A small sad thing is your crush mentioning someone else as their love interest when you'd hoped it was you.

A small sad thing is not getting as good of a grade as you'd thought you'd get on a project you worked you'd butt off on.

A small sad thing is seeing the overgrown lawn of the house you grew up in because it has no tenant and no one to care for it.

A small sad thing is leaving all the pets that have passed and are buried in the backyard with that house.

A small sad thing is getting interrupted when you're trying to tell someone you care about about something you're really excited about.

A small sad thing is going to a family reunion and having your cousins being told they have to come say hi to you by their parents.

A small sad thing is sitting by yourself at the family reunion knowing the only family member that ever spoke to you is no longer here to make you feel welcomed.

A small sad thing is seeing your parents fond over one of your siblings more than you.

A small sad thing is the look in the eyes of someone you look up to when you've disappointed them.

A small sad thing is cleaning out your locker at the end of the school year knowing you're not going back.

A small sad thing is graduation day when you realize you won't see some of these people gathered here today ever again.

A small sad thing is a thinking a friend has finally caught on to how miserable you are only to turn the conversation around on them.

A small sad thing is seeing someone you used to care about in a bad place.

A small sad thing is writing a list of all the small sad things that have happened to you and realizing some are big sad things that you had to play off as no big deal because you knew no one really cared when they asked.