Live for the moments you can’t put into words.
— UNKNOWN
There are some people, it is written, who live extraordinary lives.
Their stories are put to print in biographies and memoirs and adorn bookstore window displays, their lives elevated on platforms behind glass like crown jewels.
Their lives are worthy and interesting and often amazing. As extraordinary should be.
But if theirs are extraordinary, are ours ordinary?
Plain?
My life doesn’t feel plain.
And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are …
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