On perceiving a marvelous subject for the first time,it is usual to surrender our rationalization to the simple surprise and complete awe that that first encounter might engender,without pausing to actually judge or qualify in any way the experience. Later on,if asked,we will revert to “awesome”,or a simple “the best experience”,and mostly the rationalizations and ideas will start pouring out of our mind.
But,at the very beginning,that subjective assessment will be completely secondary to the raw power of the emotions and physical understanding of the phenomenon that you are experiencing. That instant of reality displaces every other thing in the Universe.
Later,we all do grow complacent. That instantaneous immersion,though,that first impression,marks a whole lot of our attitude toward the subject that we will like to experience.
Take,for example,the ocean (assuming,of course,that you grew away from it):What happened the first time you saw that mass of water? What emotions came to you from feeling the noise of the ocean,smelling what the wind brought,seeing the absurd vastness?
Oh. You saw the ocean when you were two. You grew with it,and it has never brought a smile to your face. The ocean just is.
Ask the fishermen in a small village. Or their wives. They all grew with the ocean,they all respect it.
That initial communion with the unexpected,the sensation of belonging to that instant and that place,the absolute renunciation of expectations and desires,and simply the experience of what is happening in that instant,in that place.
That is what I want to relive.
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