A Sense Of Awareness

"Curiosity is one of the characteristics of a vigorous intelect"
We live in a world of increasing wönders of one sort and another extent that we tend to take them all very much for granted and become rather blase for them.
Let us learn really to notice things and people,like these humble anonymous insects i noticed yesterday on the Mango tree situated at our college,to be aware of our surroundings in a way we are all too often not aware of them.This awareness is the first step towards wonder.Al Koran,in his book Bring Out the Magic in Your Mind writes,'The first thing is to see things,not just to notice them.Observe,really observe.How long is it since you saw such insects?How much have you been missing?
These insects form a fraction of the wönder about us in the world,in things,in people.Ponder sometimes the very wonder of being alive.Share with the writer of Psalm in the Bible the feeling of being fearfully and wonderful wrought.Move your finger and contemplate all the wonder that is envolved in that simple action.Pause and think of the rheer miracle in human eye.Look at a flower and see the wonder there.
Indeed-it is well worth while spending a few wonder moments'every day-simply selecting some common object near at hand,thinking about it analysing its very being,noticing about it without it something you have never noticed before,seeing it and seeing into it.This Proces gives a completely new dimension to life,a ne exhilaration in living.
It is particulary worth watching little children and the wonder with which they regard things. This is one of the capacities which,sadly ,we sometimes seem to lose as we grow older,taking everything for granted and missing the wonder which is to be found in commonplace.To recorver this sense of wonder is one of the secrets of happy satisfying living.We are far too busy,too much under pressure caught up in a rat race of getting time to stand and stare and so to drink something of the sheer wonder of life and being.