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“I let myself be amazed by something ordinary I usually walk right past.”
Wonder is the natural state of a creature that knows it won't be here forever; we just train ourselves out of it for the sake of looking grown. You let it back in for a moment, and the ordinary turned remarkable. The world is astonishing and you are briefly here to witness it. That is not a small thing. That is the thing.
Your Practice
- Pick one ordinary thing today and look at it like you've never seen it. Really look.
- Ask a child's question about it. Let yourself not already know.
- Notice you can do this any day, for free, for as long as you're alive.
- Trade five minutes of scrolling for five minutes of actually seeing.
The Architects
“Today is only one day in all the days that will ever be. But what will happen in all the other days that ever come can depend on what you do today.”
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, 1940