Choose Wonder
You can decide every day, multiple times every day, if you want to have a sense of joy, slight awe, and/or amazement in your life.
You can choose wonder—or you can choose the opposite of wonder, something that seems to be plentiful in our current day.
I think that snarky voice, the negative remark, the ability to have a slight dissatisfaction with everything, is inside all of us. We are blessed and cursed with seemingly infinite choice, the possibility that there might be something a little bit better, or even “perfect,” around the corner, in the next swipe left, or after a few more seconds of scrolling.
I’m not advocating for 24/7 blind optimism. The world is not a perfect place and many things about it should change so it can become a better place for more people.
But you can fight for change and still experience joy.
The world is changing faster than ever before, and it gets easier every year you’re alive to be just a bit more of a pessimist, turning the brightness dial of your perspective down another notch. It takes effort, but I believe it’s worth it, when we can, to squint into a visual field of rain clouds loaded with infinite ways we could be disappointed, unimpressed, and dissatisfied with every little thing in our lives, and instead focus on a sense of awe and amazement.
by Brendan
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