Here’s To Novelty
Here’s To Novelty originally uploaded by aqui-ali on 8 May ‘07, 7.08pm CEST PST.
I see these parrots every other day now, as they tend to congregate at a park near my work. The first time I saw them I was ecstatic, the novelty of seeing a parrot in a large city amongst the skyscrapers seemed do incredible.
As I saw them more often and realized that they were easily accessible I became indifferent to the novelty. Yesterday I saw them again, and that sense of amazement came back, as I again considered more purposefully how amazingly special it is to be able to interact with parrots in a major city that is not located in the vicinity of their natural habitat.
Novelty is a construct of the curious mind, and needs to be cultivated. Novelty is everywhere, even in the world we see as familiar.
I need to remind myself of this more often…
Emrikol said,
May 8, 2007 @ 10:21 pm
I have one of those! Crazy conures bite hard