Card #19 – ”See the Wonder” from the Creative Whack Pack

Available on the iOS App Store and as a physical deck of cards

As children, we are awestruck by most of life.

Everyday events — from the chirp of a cricket to a long distance conversation with faraway relatives – seem nothing less than miraculous to the average three-year-old.

Yet somehow, as we grow into adulthood, that sense of wonderment gets drummed out of us.

Too many of us sleepwalk through our lives, focusing on trivial matters (“that car took my parking place”) and get locked into narrow ways of thinking (“my way is the right way”).

Wake up to the wonders of our existence. What amazing things do you grasp?

That the sun rose this morning and you’re alive to enjoy it? That plants contain the pigment chlorophyll that allows them to store the sun’s energy?

That ingredients in the bark of the cinchona tree can combat the deadly effects of malaria? That your car brakes work virtually every time you use them? That wind chimes evoke childhood memories of spring rain?

That our brains can take scattered pieces of our daily experience and then transform them into surreal night times dreams?

As scientist Lewis Thomas put it:

“Statistically, the probability of any one of being here is so small that the mere fact of our existence should keep us all in a state of contented dazzlement.”