Surprise and Delight.
Awe.
Loving life.
Enjoying the small miracles.
I’m getting good at this.
And recently I realized something:
noticing surprise and delight is a survival technology.
Maybe even a thrival technology.
It’s not just something pleasant to do —
it’s something that exponentiates life.
A cross-technology that improves everything else.
So…
sunsets and sunrises,
storms,
daisies,
lazy cats,
your favorite song,
all of EDC,
beauty,
humor,
mystery,
psychedelics,
synchronicity,
the feeling of “fuck yeah,”
the sheer delight of seeing something small and somehow knowing:
that was just for you.
Awe keeps my nervous system open to life.
Open to activity.
To action.
To aliveness.
I can’t get enough of it.
And yes —
it has broken my heart more than once.
But out of those breaks arose something strange and graceful:
awe,
gratitude,
and the quiet knowing:
I wouldn’t have it any other way.