Prompt: Why do the most ordinary things in life impact us the most when we no longer have them around? Would life be different if everything was just big events? Why or why not?
Response: I think that the reason most ordinary things in life impact us the most when we no longer have them is because those ordinary things were little parts of our day that gave life a new color, and made it worth living. However, these small ordinary things are always taken for granted. Whenever I look back on a year that has passed by, I always remember and find joy in the little routines in life that allowed each day to become a new adventure. Most of all, I think we take for granted our relationships with other people. The people I have met over the years have given me more exuberance, happiness, and life than anything else. The people that have now moved on, or who I don't get to interact with as much anymore, will always hold a part of my heart that now realized what they meant to me as I don't have them anymore. It's about realizing the true effect these things had in our life. Sometimes that realization can only be made through a new perspective, a perspective that shows us what life is like without that ordinary thing. I think that life would be different if everything that happened was just a big event, because we would see "big events" in a different way. When you are repeatedly introduced to the same stimulus, that stimulus begins to diminish in magnitude and significance. The same would go for if only big events occurred in our life. These "big events" would overtime be seen as ordinary events if there was no contrast given against the grandeur of those occurrences.
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