New Eyes
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.
Marcel Proust
There is some great wisdom in this quote. Even though we are on a journey in new lands, this quote still works for me. I was watching the traffic of people crossing the Ljubljana’s Triple Bridge (3 bridges built side by side) and I took this short timelapse. I thought it speaks to the speed of our lives and the importance of slowing down so we might see with “new eyes”. I have do have the tendency to want to see it all when on travel. As I don’t want to miss anything and so if your time is limited, I find myself just taking “snapshots” as I go quickly from place to place.
Yet, to see with “new eyes” means I must “take more time and cover less ground” as the song by Carrie Newcomer goes. Just slowing down and taking more time to be fully present can definitely help. I think sometimes about this simple truth and wonder why do I not do this more? Why am I rushing so often?
Sometimes when I write down my thoughts like this it helps me to clarify what is important. I look back at today and think how I really did not heed my own advice. Tomorrow is a new day and I want to take more time and cover less ground.
On the path together,
John