True wonder is like true happiness: not sustainable for long periods. I would not live my life seeking to always seek with those eyes.
True wonder, like true happiness, is a moment, more precious for its ephemeral stay: the gasp at the sight of a bright butterfly, the warm feeling you have being inside when rain drums out a pattern that humans have heard for thousands of years, the sudden pleasure that your body can move with some grace.
A single course of action will not bring you joy. How you live your life through the mundane bits, the dull bits, the tense bits, the exultant bits only opens opportunities for joy. It's always in reach, no matter what you're doing... you simply have to be willing to admit that even a mundane life can make you happy.
Would that it was an easier course. It's easier to think simply choosing some other way of life will make things brighter. Rarely seems to work that way, though.
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Date: 2004-09-09 06:22 pm (UTC)True wonder, like true happiness, is a moment, more precious for its ephemeral stay: the gasp at the sight of a bright butterfly, the warm feeling you have being inside when rain drums out a pattern that humans have heard for thousands of years, the sudden pleasure that your body can move with some grace.
A single course of action will not bring you joy. How you live your life through the mundane bits, the dull bits, the tense bits, the exultant bits only opens opportunities for joy. It's always in reach, no matter what you're doing... you simply have to be willing to admit that even a mundane life can make you happy.
Would that it was an easier course. It's easier to think simply choosing some other way of life will make things brighter. Rarely seems to work that way, though.