Clouds
Whilst hovering mere meters above the fluffy clouds that gently move over Sweden, I was about to dismiss the sight and look back at my laptop, but then decided that no! This is amazing! We are FLYING! Just above the CLOUDS! And aren’t they incredibly amazing themselves? Air having reached just the right conditions for all its water to deposit itself on tiny particles and in aggregate forming clouds. And we can just go there and move through them!
Church
I had a similar experience when being in a really nice church in Ghent. Sure, it was the x-th dozen old European church I’ve seen, nothing special, but then instead of just walking through all unimpressed, I decided to try and put myself into the shoes of a medieval peasant who’s not gone far outside their little village and now for the first time is in a city and for the first time sees a large church, maybe for the first time sees large columns, gold relief, large stained glass windows, and life-size statues of people past. Literally everything in here is amazing and beyond what they’ve ever seen before!
Whilst they surely had a greater experience than I had, it did elevate mine quite enormously and I have gotten quite a lot out of it! Marvel and fascination everywhere!
Child’s Mind and Peasant’s Mind
Being able to put oneself back into a child’s or a peasant’s mind who hasn’t yet seen things and to whom everything here is still incredible, is a great skill to have.
We could ofc chase ever larger things, but without this ability, each new amazement comes at the cost of making this same feeling even further out of reach. With it, we can greatly enjoy even what has become mundane!
Now, we’ve just landed, I’m inside the airport and they have horizontal-only escalators and I’m so. fast!
SO FAST!
I’m zooming around, making soft sound effects for my own amusement and I’m so fast!
This was very great and reminds me again, that we should have more play!
See also:
- Don’t watch the waves for too long, a direct follow up to this post
- Have more play!