A few years ago a friend came to visit me in New York. We were walking north on Broadway, just south of Union Square, when he suddenly stopped me. Pointing straight ahead, he exclaimed:
That’s the Empire State Building!
It was.
I hadn’t thought to point it out to him. It was a sight I saw daily from almost anywhere I walked in my neighborhood. Always in my line of vision,
I took it for granted. I had forgotten what it felt like to be new to the area, to see it from every vantage point.
Although I saw it daily, I had stopped seeing it.
Suddenly I saw it through his eyes, the awe and wonder at seeing this building from a different neighborhood.
We grow accustomed to what is in our path, to seeing things in the way we have always seen them.
Sometimes we need someone else to help us see what we’ve been looking at for so long in a new light.
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