Everything is exciting all the time. Watch a baby or a puppy. For them, everything is new and amazing. We can settle into the habit of keeping our minds in the "it's the same old thing" gear and take everything into stride immediately. If I am really determined to be unruffled, calm and unreactive even, I can do it.
But a little bit each day, it is fun to pay attention to the fact that the very second you are reading this is a second that has never ticked by before. It is never going to come again. Let's salute this second and respect its unique existence. If you get in the mood, you can celebrate the particular evening you had yesterday. Or, take the moment this morning when you first realized you were awake. You never woke up to be that exact age before and you never will again. You never woke up with that particular night of sleep slept in just that way. Pretty neat!
We can label them repeats, lump them together, call them all "nights" but each is a bit different. Humanity, what with better education and better insight into genetics and individual differences, may be entering a period of better awareness of the exact nature of each of its members. Maybe we are getting to the point of sensing and remembering the way I am different from you. Maybe even the way I am different now from who and what I was on this day of last week or this day of last month.
I have read that human minds naturally search for patterns but maybe I can develop deeper, sharper insight into anti-patterns, ways that days and people and personalities differ.
