Oh Wonder, and the Concept of Changing Before Extremes

CM
CM
Aug 24, 2017 · 1 min read

Day 115.

Today I looked out the window and stared and watched the sun set over Brooklyn.

The pinks and oranges cast a haze on the city, turning its once «hard» exterior into a vulnerable beauty, rare and intimate.

I don’t get to appreciate or get these moments often, but when I do, they’re beautiful. Liberating. Fulfilling. Soul enriching. As if a warm tea had been poured out for me on a rainy day.

I love the moments when I really get to appreciate the world. When everything looks so beautiful. Feels so pristine. It’s so rare, in today’s society.

Isn’t that insane? That the sense of «wonder» has been taken from our lives, and that we are majorly dependent on the monotone routine of life? Why don’t we focus on discovery and appreciation more often?

The past few days I have been pondering over – why do things have to get to extremes before they change them? Why do people not change things earlier? I wrote about how I gave up drinking, and felt like I was trying to change my life simply because I wasn’t content with my life. Someone I met recently thought that I had a major drinking problem before, and that’s why I did the purge, but I don’t know why it’s hard to believe that someone would just change their normal seeming life to be better simply because they werent 100 percent happy.

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