…..and the new reality quickly became the old reality, and things that just days ago seemed fresh and exciting now seemed dull and unbearably tedious. Why is this so? Why do things become humdrum and pedestrian so quickly? How can one life morph into a dreary existence after but a handful of spins on the carousel? Once the shine wears off an apple, it no longer begs consumption. Once you’ve been to Paris, your second and third and fourth views of the mythical City of Lights are not nearly as special. Once you move past that nuclear first impression of her unparalleled beauty, her warts speedily become apparent and that lustrous sheen reflecting from her hair transforms into a seedy oiliness. Once that first swallow from a premier imported bottle of French wine goes cascading off your palate and down your non-gustatory gullet, you may as well be drinking Cousin Jethro’s homemade beet wine. Same thing with life. Once an experience has been sampled for the first time, it no longer holds the same allure that attracted you to it in the first place. The shine is gone, the piquancy is gone, the thrill is gone. I guess you could say life is coldhearted and eminently lackluster because of this, yet that characterization doesn’t do it sufficient justice and greatly oversimplifies life’s ethereal underlying meaning. Life is pluperfect unlike any other entity in our known Universe, but only if your expectations of it are reasonable and remain grounded in reality …..
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