Walk the block once without your phone and you’ll meet a street you’ve passed a thousand times.

Familiarity makes things invisible. Your mind stops processing a route once it has been mapped, so you can travel it daily for years and hold almost no detail of it, because attention was elsewhere and nothing demanded it back. The street did not become boring. You stopped arriving at it.

Take one walk this week with nothing in your hands and no destination that matters. Look up at rooflines, at doorways, at what people have put in their windows. It is a small thing and it tends to reset something, because noticing is a muscle and it gets stiff.