Do you ever feel like you are not really present in a situation? At times I will look back at something that I was at, or someone that I was with and wonder if I was really even there. I mentally check out of situations without realizing it.
The little details have always been important to me. The small instances are the ones that I look back on and am thankful for. Lately I have been putting things into perspective more. I haven't had some massive-change-my-life-and-become-a-new-person epiphany, but I have realized that I often romanticize situations.
"...a sense of change about the familiar edifice, such as affects us all, when, after a separation of months or years, we again see some hill or lake, or work of art, with which we were friends, of old. In ordinary cases, this indescribable impression is caused by the comparison and contrast between our imperfect reminiscences and the reality."
-Nathaniel Hawthorne [Wakefield]
In other news Christmas is coming (yeah yeah, stating the obvious I know). I have an obsession with shoes and I have realized I have started to try my hardest to wear a new pair every day for at least, oh, five days. Then I can cycle again. New shoe of desire: cowboy boots.
