There should be a German compound word for the emotion you feel when you encounter a famous thing and realize you’d never actually seen it until that moment. (Ikonerwachen?)
I had seen a thousand images of the Sydney Opera House before my gaze landed on it unexpectedly as I was crossing the harbour bridge in 2010. I knew its iconic look from movies, travel websites, clipart collections, and Where in the World is Carmen San Diego — but only at that moment did I realize I’d never seen it before.
This happened again with the planet Saturn. From Mauna Kea in Hawaii, I saw the ringed planet in perfect focus through a large reflecting telescope, and it was spectacular. Voyager 1 photographs and textbook diagrams did not prepare my heart to see a real, physical object, hanging there before my eyes in empty space.
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I'm David, and Raptitude is a blog about getting better at being human -- things we can do to improve our lives today.
I like the strategy of considering multiple ways of trying to reach the goal and asking yourself how a determined person would do it. and I recognize the types of excuses I've had over the years as to why I didn't try harder (getting out of my comfort zone, risk...