I Never Noticed

It's funny how we can see the same things everyday and never come to appreciate them until someone, an outsider points out the beauty in those things.

Several years ago, I attended an Angels game with a co-worker. We had nosebleed seats. To the left of the stadium, off in the horizon were clouded, purple mountains.

"Wow. Those mountains are beautiful." He repeated himself several times, taking in deep breaths between his words.

I must have driven past those mountains thousands of times, but never cared to notice them. They were a part of my everyday scenery.

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Driving on the freeway to the Hoover Dam, my friends pointed out the (black) mountains. They were our scenery all the way there. I told them I've seen these types of mountains my whole life, but I never realized how amazing they were.

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It was on a Sunday morning, day two of our first yard sale attempt. A couple walks into our driveway and the woman says, "Wow. That's a beautiful tree."

I looked up at it, and thought, I never noticed that. It is beautiful.

Since then the tree's leaves have turned to a light green-yellow. It's still beautiful.