The ordinary path feels different when you take it with someone who notices other things.
REFLECTION
REFLECTION
Your attention has grooves in it. You walk the same route and see the same six things, because familiarity is efficient and efficiency prunes what it does not need. Someone else walking beside you has different grooves, so they stop at the wall you have never looked at and hear the bird you filtered out years ago. The place did not change; the set of things being noticed did.
Take a walk you could do half asleep with someone who has never done it. Ask what they are looking at rather than narrating what you already know. You will get part of your own street back.
Who shows you things on a route you thought you knew completely?
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