Awe Poem
Awe is inspiring. It is a peculiar feeling. You never know when you’re going to feel it. It sneaks up on you, and then it’s there. There is no anticipating awe, no planning, no preparation for it. If you try to anticipate awe, you often don’t feel it. Our imagination can always be more extravagant than the world. We imagine how we should feel about something, and when that feeling doesn’t come to fruition we feel disappointment. Awe is the feeling of the world surprising us. No matter how dull and dreary you might think the world is, awe is there to prove you wrong. Awe is when the world becomes better than your imagination. It is proof that even when you think you’ve seen it all, you haven’t. It is an invitation from the world to explore new
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Once you see it, feel it, experience it, you can never feel awe from that source again. We must keep searching for awe. To accept the loss of awe is to accept that the world has nothing new to offer. We have a drive to be amazed, to be stupefied. We want to feel like a child walking into an amusement park for the first time because that feeling pushes us to discover. Without awe, we would become recluse. Not in our lives, but in our minds. We would stop taking in the world, and stop noticing the little details surrounding us. We must keep searching for new sources of awe.The world is offering us an invitation to experience it, and we must take it; utilize it. Awe doesn’t have to come in the form of monumental architecture or towering land masses. Awe is above, and below. It is in new places and old, in the grandest of mountains, and the tiniest of flowers. The world wants us to experience it, that’s why it exists. It is begging us, and more often than not we choose to ignore it. So look around, take in the little things. Remember the things you’ve grown to ignore, or even despise the monotony of. The world is brimming with marvels to be found. Awe is emanating from every blade of grass, and from every imposing skyscraper. Awe is all around us, and the world is begging for you to find
Once you see it, feel it, experience it, you can never feel awe from that source again. We must keep searching for awe. To accept the loss of awe is to accept that the world has nothing new to offer. We have a drive to be amazed, to be stupefied. We want to feel like a child walking into an amusement park for the first time because that feeling pushes us to discover. Without awe, we would become recluse. Not in our lives, but in our minds. We would stop taking in the world, and stop noticing the little details surrounding us. We must keep searching for new sources of awe.The world is offering us an invitation to experience it, and we must take it; utilize it. Awe doesn’t have to come in the form of monumental architecture or towering land masses. Awe is above, and below. It is in new places and old, in the grandest of mountains, and the tiniest of flowers. The world wants us to experience it, that’s why it exists. It is begging us, and more often than not we choose to ignore it. So look around, take in the little things. Remember the things you’ve grown to ignore, or even despise the monotony of. The world is brimming with marvels to be found. Awe is emanating from every blade of grass, and from every imposing skyscraper. Awe is all around us, and the world is begging for you to find