Somewhere, something ordinary to you would be astonishing to another version of human history.

Hot water on demand, fruit out of season, the ability to speak to someone far away and hear them instantly. Any of these would have been almost incomprehensible to most people who ever lived, and to you they are simply Tuesday. Habituation is efficient and it costs you nearly all of the wonder.

When something ordinary is working, try seeing it once as it would have looked to someone without it. It takes a second and it does not need to become a practice. It is just a way of occasionally collecting a little of the astonishment that is sitting there unclaimed.