How to Find Your Way Back to Something That Feels Like Wonder
There’s a part of you — a quiet, flickering part — that still wants to feel something.
It’s not loud. It doesn’t shout. It doesn’t demand attention.
But it’s there. Beneath the routines, the responsibilities, the relentless noise of everything that needs doing. A small ache. A soft whisper. A sense that life could feel… more alive again.
Not bigger. Not busier. Not more impressive.
Just with more of you in it.
I know that feeling.
I’ve stood in the middle of my life and wondered where my curiosity went.
Where my joy went.
Where my sense of play or possibility or even lightness had gone.
And I’ve looked at my full calendar, my full shelves, my full days — and felt strangely empty inside them.
It’s not that anything was wrong. It’s just that something had quietly dimmed. Something I hadn’t even noticed slipping away.
And for a long time, I told myself I just needed a break. Or a holiday. Or a good night’s sleep. But what I was really missing was something else that I’d been overlooking for a while:
Wonder.
Not in the magical, childlike, fireworks-and-miracles kind of way (though maybe sometimes that too).
But in the sense of being moved by something again.
Touched. Stirred. Lit up, even momentarily, by something that reminded me I was still human, still noticing, still capable of feeling something beyond obligation or exhaustion.
And slowly — gently — I began to find my way back.
Not through anything big or profound. Just small shifts in attention.
Small moments.
I started capturing tiny glimmers each day. Nothing curated or worthy or remarkable — just things that made me feel something, even briefly.
A painting that enlivened something in me.
A phrase that landed well.
The smell of toast.
A pop song on the journey to school.
The sound of rain on the roof while I lay in bed on a Sunday morning.
These weren’t dramatic changes. But they were enough to soften something.
They were enough to remind me that I could still feel.
That I could still find beauty in things.
That I could still belong to my own life.
Because that’s what wonder does — it brings you back.
Not just to the world, but to yourself.
So if you’ve been feeling flat, a little grey around the edges, a little disconnected from the feeling of joy or inspiration or spontaneity — start smaller.
Don’t search for a grand purpose or a huge transformation — ways to blow up your life or burn it down.
Search for texture. For moments. For anything that catches your breath or relax your shoulders or makes you pause and think: Yes. That.
That’s enough.
That’s the beginning.
That’s wonder — quietly making its way back to you.
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