When we desire something and strive for that experience, we are often as excited as a child to do his first roll forward and back.
We don't remember many of our first experiences, but there are even more that are not so distant in the past, so we somehow quickly forget them. The joy of that moment oftentimes passes like a gulp of water down the throat after a quenched thirst. We waited and wanted so much, and then we forget how thirsty we really were.
When the child takes the first step, when the first word is spoken, when the first hug is felt, when kid starts the first grade, that joy belongs to the parents and they remember it. However, for many, the first trip to the sea or mountain is an experience that is lived much later. The first snow also, the first trip to the cinema or theater. The first trip by plane and someone still hasn't experienced it.
The first platonic loves, the first falling in love. The first salary and the feeling that we are earning money. The first gift we bought, from that same salary. The first child and then its steps and its word and so life continues its circle with the fulfillment of the wish list of the first experience.
We quickly stop looking forward because we are always waiting for that other thing to come. We forget those first joys and former desires that we now live.
For some, the first experience is often a long-dreamed dream, while for others it is a habit, so the experience is therefore stronger for those whose desire has been waiting for a long time to come true.
Let's not allow the joy of the first experience to turn into an everyday default, because as a result we may lose the memory of it, and perhaps the opportunity to experience it again.
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