I overheard a woman in a restaurant telling her friends that she had pledged to try something new every day for a year. Her friends were amazed, how did she had time for such a project, something new absolutely every day? She explained that it could be something simple, like ordering something she’d never tried before on the menu or even just turning down a different street and taking a new way home. Suddenly the amazed friends totally lost interest; those things were too simple, they were unimpressed.
The project has stayed with me because each day and indeed each moment is new. We can make our own lives interesting by exploring what is right in front of us, by pushing ourselves out of our comfort zones, bit by bit. We can choose to recognize each moment as something original as it passes and choose to keep life fresh by actively recognizing each day’s opportunity with interest, even if it is simply acknowledging another bud opening into just another bloom on the vine.
Try something new everyday and record it here. I could record it with a picture, a brief description, a journal, an idea. I know I will tend towards clusters of new things followed by slow days when I want the same old rhythms to rock me through whatever challenges me. The ebbs and flows are expected. I will take something new from each day.
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