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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
“In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
— Albert Camus, Return to Tipasa (1954), Lyrical and Critical Essays