"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." Marcel Proust
In Twelve Step groups they call this looking for a "geographic cure" -- the temptation to think that one's troubles are dependent upon where one lives, rather than how one sees the world. It seems to me that we can be happy any where. I look to Viktor Frankl as inspiration in that regard. He could see beauty in the one flower he found blooming in the concentration camp. Surely, we have more reason to find even more beauty in our lives. We live in relative prosperity and freedom. There is beauty of nature or architecture around us. What can you see in a new way today?
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