yesterday's post

another thought about yesterday's post- i read today the following phrase:

"... a creativity that sprung from an advanced mind experiencing the world as a novelty."

although taken out of context, i can apply this to why i wrote yesterday- the last time i looked at america, at chicago, at western modern life as a novelty, i was an infant. i cannot evade habitual ways of perceiving my life. yet when i travel abroad, the world is novel; i am seeing things for the first time and making connections that i would not if the experiences were not completely new to me.

i like the thought that even as an adult, it is possible to reach that child-like state of "experiencing the world as a novelty."