Never Lose Your Wonder
One of the things I admire most in people has nothing to do with their career, their accomplishments, or the things they own. It's much simpler than that. I love people who still get excited about ordinary things. The kind of people who light up when a new book they've been waiting for finally arrives. The ones who pause to admire a colorful sunset instead of walking right past it. The people who smile over the first sip of a really good cup of coffee or happily announce that they have an unexpected free afternoon with absolutely nothing planned. There is something incredibly refreshing about people who haven't allowed adulthood to steal their sense of wonder. I sometimes wonder when we collectively decided that excitement should be reserved only for life's biggest moments. As children, everything felt worth celebrating. The first snowfall, finding an oddly shaped rock, hearing the ice cream truck in the distance, or staying up just a little later than usual could make ...