"What was once impressive is now the numbing baseline. What was once exceptional is now commonplace. My standards haven’t necessarily risen. It’s just that the “wow” factor has disappeared. Beauty has been standardized."

Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.

Aldous Huxley

That we manage to stay afloat. That we exist at all. That each of us has come into being as only one of untold possibilities. The unthinkable is something that we carry with us always. It has already happened. We are improbable. We have merged from a cloud of unbelievable coincidences. Anyone would think that this knowledge would equip us in some