Being amazed by things isn’t childish. Losing the ability to be amazed is the real downgrade.

Wonder gets treated as something you grow out of, when losing it is really just the slow build-up of assuming you already know what things are. A child looks at a bird and sees a bird. An adult looks at a bird, reads the label and moves on. The bird has not become less remarkable, only more filed away.

Look properly at one ordinary thing this week for longer than is normal. A storm, a machine, an animal, how a bridge holds itself up. Being impressed is a skill and it keeps working when used.