Take a different route home. You’ll see streets you’ve lived next to for years and never met.

A route you have walked a thousand times stops being seen at all. Your brain files it as known and quits rendering the details, which is efficient and also means whole blocks nearby stay blank to you. The neighborhood did not get smaller. Your map of it just stopped updating years ago.

Go home a different way twice this week, even if it adds ten minutes. Find one thing you did not know was there. It is a small act and it does something odd and good to how big your area feels.