Being back home brings many beautiful little things to life. The moment when you think everything around you is already known, the odds are – it is not. You might have just stopped looking deeper, further, higher.
We tell ourselves we know the town, but we may have never visited certain parts – even in the smallest of towns.
We tell ourselves we know the paths, but they change steadily, and every time we go back, some fragments are slightly different than before.
We may say we know the people, but they grow up and change through different experiences, and if we do not follow them through time, all we are left with are memories of their younger selves.
“The only constant in life is change.” – Heraclitus
The present is always something new, different than the past, than our memories and reminiscences. That is the beauty of life. You can always learn, see and feel something new, no matter how well you know your environment.
The same refers to nature.
You can see something new after crossing the same path over and over again.
You can swim and dive and see nothing exciting, but if you turn over a couple of rocks, even those in the shallow, you will probably see something new – a brittle star, a baby sea cucumber or a sea snail. They were there before – they were just hiding too well for people who don’t look further.
Being at a well-known place gives you the opportunity to broaden your exploratory part. It is easy to explore new things, and much more demanding to explore apparently known and already visited sites.
Take a better look at your surroundings and look at the world through the eyes of a child, with curiosity, thrill and inexhaustible questions. Children find adventures on every corner, and yet, many of us somehow forget it with time. Try to keep the child in you.
Take a chance and be the one who looks further, feels deeper, and climbs higher through the life.