finding awe in the ordinary

I had a french professor who once said if you just did something like going to the supermarket and experienced it fully without the goggles of habit and catégories you would go crazy with pure sense and joy. I think about it all the time. In a way this is all for him.

And here we arrive, at ‘awe fatigue’, the final pathetic consequence of our rabid digital voyeurism. As destinations increase in popularity and algorithms flood with identical copies of content, visitors' genuine experiences become distorted, and the very concept of awe becomes an ever distant dream. Despite multiple studies showing that the cultiv... See more

Researchers speculated that the experience of awe might increase participants’ sense of time-availability, which might in turn lead people to act more generously with their time, and enhance overall well-being.

Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your understanding of the world,”