A familiar place deserves occasional attention without an errand attached to it.

Places you pass constantly stop registering as places. The high street becomes a route to the shop, the park becomes the way to the station, and the noticing gets switched off because there is always a reason to be moving through. Then someone visits and points at something you have walked past a thousand times. Attention needs an occasion, and errands never provide one.

Go somewhere ordinary near you this week with no purpose beyond being there. Sit for ten minutes or walk it in the wrong direction. Look at the buildings above shop level.