Abhijit NaskarWhat you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.
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Martha Graham once said, “What you today perceive as beautiful and special, over time, becomes not so special. That’s how the human brain works.” It makes sense that you can love what you see at first sight today, but over time, even the most beautiful sunset will become just another sunset. When you are young the choices seem limitless. You feel like you will always have a chance to make up your mind about what you want to do or who you want to be.
But as you get older, things change. Life gets in the way of making those choices, and you start to wonder if it was all worth it. The brain is a powerful thing, but it is also very smart.
It knows that time is running out on us to make those decisions before we grow too old to make them. We may remember things from our past with fondness, but we know that they are probably not going to be around forever. Then we start to realize that what we thought was important at one point in our lives may not seem important anymore.
This quote helps us understand that we shouldn’t let our perception of beauty and the reality of life interfere with our ability to make good decisions and live a full life.
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