From Ordinary to Exciting
How we view our world.
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The New, New Thing
Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works. Anything that’s invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. Anything invented after you’re thirty-five is against the natural order of things.
Douglas Adams
My late father had a rotary phone in his home until the phone company paid him to take it out. I’d love to have that phone today.
He never could quite grasp that cell phone calls didn’t involve long-distance charges. I’d call and talk, and he would cut the call short because he didn’t want to “run up my bill.”
That was the way he was.
If something was still working, there was no need to replace it. He wasn’t eager to have the latest and greatest anything.
Harmony Between New and Old
For me, there needs to be harmony. I don’t require ‘new’ things for the sake of having new ones. At the same time, I don’t want to hold on to old or existing things just because.
Douglas Adams is on to something with the observation that we view changes and change through a different lens depending upon when they occur in our lives.
The answer is remaining open and curious.
When you are curious, you are interested. When you are interested, you attract new opportunities.
🌀 What are you holding onto that is ‘the natural order of things?’ Is there anything you should let go of to try something new?
The child is the father of man as a wise man said. As long as that child in us is kept alive, curiosity would never desert us. Sadly, many of us are busy pretending to be grown up and in the process stop discovering and inventing. We take it as below ‘dignity’ to be surprised and marvelled and live like a lifeless log.