So common one forgets...

[vakkotaur]

Some time back, jmaynard and I returned home from supper or some such and saw a rabbit on the lawn. This was unusual for Jay, but not for me. I had been used to seeing rabbits when I lived in the country in Wisconsin, and Fairmont is a small enough town that seeing rabbits is not unusual. A bit less common than squirrels, but hardly rare. Seeing deer in the area, that would be rare.

When visiting my folks this weekend we saw several deer in the field across the road. I hadn't commented on it here as it wasn't unusual. It was something I expected to see, off and on, there. Only when I read another's LJ entry about seeing wildlife did it occur to me.

I wonder how many other "little things" I don't pay all that much attention to. It's not that I miss them or ignore them. They're just so common, to me, that I do not regard them as anything unusual and so don't comment on them.

This happens indoors, too. I'm familiar with how our house looks inside. There are original inks of comic pages, and Animaniacs cels hanging on the walls. I'm used to them. But when my sister visited it struck her just how much Animaniacs (and other cartoon) stuff was around.

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[narfcake.livejournal.com]

- It's not that I miss them or ignore them. They're just so common, to me, that I do not regard them as anything unusual and so don't comment on them.

I don't think that there's anyone out there that hasn't become so acquainted with their surroundings that after a while, it doesn't start looking "normal".

In my case, it'll be the clear brown skies over SoCal. :)

-- Kane ... actually, it's not that bad nowadays. Aninarf, SoCal lost out the title of Nation's Worst Air Quality again last year.

[shelbystripes.livejournal.com]

Every time I go home to the farm I grew up on and get home after dark, I always end up getting out of the truck, glancing upward... and just gawking in awe at the stars that I'd forgotten existed from living in a city for a few weeks/months. I used to take it for granted that everyone knew they were all there; now I only get to see them occasionally... and if I ever take friends out that way, they usually end up completely blown away by the sight, since they've never seen it before.

I never even knew how to appreciate it before I moved away to college and city life, where they have lights on the ground to drown out the ones in the sky at night.