Sat here looking out over the sand to the ocean view having just eaten my penultimate breakfast at Charlie’s, it feels like I am enjoying this view again for the very first time. It’s the same feeling I had the first few days I arrived having been away for so long. I’m afraid to say, after the first week or so the feeling quickly left me. In the same way the first few mouthfuls of a meal are the tastiest so it seems with the initiation into any experience. It is such a shame that the keen blade of novelty is so easily dulled by repetition. But how can we avoid this? It seems to me if we could then so many other things in life would taste so much better. In lieu of Mr. Scotty at the controls of the transporter shouting ‘Energize’ we are long to live life’s moments until they become mundane and monotonous. If only there wasn’t some way to live all these different lives for shorter periods instead of extended periods of time. Three days in the life of a silicon valley guru seamlessly dissolves into breakfast on the beach in Thailand back to a high powered all hands meeting to sushi at a groovy restaurant in San Francisco and then even to Preston for a good ignoring at Café Mocha. I wouldn’t go as far as to say I miss my desk at Oracle now but I certainly appreciate its positive aspects more now then I did when I was living them day in day out for the last 5 years. Basically, we only think of how things could change for the better, not the flip side in how they could so easily change for the worse, leaving us to long for what we already had before. If I could learn how to appreciate more what I do have in life rather than dwell over what I don’t then surely that would be a step in the right direction to enjoying each and every day as if for the first time.
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