You don’t know your life is filled up with elephants, but it is, believe me. Pay attention today, and see how many elephants you can find.
I had this epiphany when my daughter was an elephant-obsessed-two-year old. She thought that elephants were called ‘circles’ because I once told her ‘that’s a circle’, pointing to a circle that had an elephant inside. You have no idea how many ‘circles’ she found every day. In the most unexpected moment, let’s say, walking in the street, or in the isle of a supermarket, she would scream, ‘Circle!’ Circle!!!’, startling me, and everyone around.
That was a long time ago. Let’s forward to the present. I’m studying German with the Duolingo app, and now I see German words everywhere. I even remember last names of people I know, that I had no idea what they meant, or in what language they were, and realize that, not only they were German last names, but also that they were not as mysterious or interesting as I thought. They were just ‘Black’, ‘Farmer’, ‘Seller’ or ‘Room’, to list a few. The point is that now I’m like my daughter when she was a two-year-old, and every time I recognize a German word, a little kid screams in my mind, pointing out at it: ‘German! German!!!’
The first noun that my daughter said when she was a toddler, was just like watching Bambi all over again, when he said ‘flower’ for the first time. We were walking in a parking lot, and she suddenly stopped on her tracks, pointing at a flower, trying to say the word in Spanish (she’s bilingual): ‘Fffooorrr!’
Well, recently, while I was driving in my neighborhood, I saw a cafe that I’ve seen many times, but suddenly, a surge of emotion came through me. The restaurant’s name was ‘Blume café’. OMG!! I started laughing in the car, my eyes wide in astonishment. This was the same cafe as always, but not exactly. The kid in my head started screaming, pointing at the café sign, while I continued driving past it: “Blume!!! Flower!! It’s the Flower café!!”
You don’t know what your world is filled up with, but it is, believe me. It might surprise you.
I had this epiphany when my daughter was an elephant-obsessed-two-year old. She thought that elephants were called ‘circles’ because I once told her ‘that’s a circle’, pointing to a circle that had an elephant inside. You have no idea how many ‘circles’ she found every day. In the most unexpected moment, let’s say, walking in the street, or in the isle of a supermarket, she would scream, ‘Circle!’ Circle!!!’, startling me, and everyone around.
That was a long time ago. Let’s forward to the present. I’m studying German with the Duolingo app, and now I see German words everywhere. I even remember last names of people I know, that I had no idea what they meant, or in what language they were, and realize that, not only they were German last names, but also that they were not as mysterious or interesting as I thought. They were just ‘Black’, ‘Farmer’, ‘Seller’ or ‘Room’, to list a few. The point is that now I’m like my daughter when she was a two-year-old, and every time I recognize a German word, a little kid screams in my mind, pointing out at it: ‘German! German!!!’
The first noun that my daughter said when she was a toddler, was just like watching Bambi all over again, when he said ‘flower’ for the first time. We were walking in a parking lot, and she suddenly stopped on her tracks, pointing at a flower, trying to say the word in Spanish (she’s bilingual): ‘Fffooorrr!’
Well, recently, while I was driving in my neighborhood, I saw a cafe that I’ve seen many times, but suddenly, a surge of emotion came through me. The restaurant’s name was ‘Blume café’. OMG!! I started laughing in the car, my eyes wide in astonishment. This was the same cafe as always, but not exactly. The kid in my head started screaming, pointing at the café sign, while I continued driving past it: “Blume!!! Flower!! It’s the Flower café!!”
You don’t know what your world is filled up with, but it is, believe me. It might surprise you.
