It is important for people to look around and make themselves aware of their surroundings. For example, when you walk out of your house you naturally use your senses. You smell the fresh air, feel the cutting wind and see the snow on the ground. Some of these things become more obvious as you walk your dog or while you are leaving your driveway and heading to school. I know today's society is all about speed but sometimes it is good to slow down and notice all the perfections and flaws in your everyday world. It is interesting as our brain gets used to our environment, we tend to filter out the minor details and focus on the big picture. For example, when I look at my backyard, I see that it is snowing outside and not how many branches have fallen from my tree. We as humans adapt to our surroundings without even noticing. I know it may sound strange but take a moment to look at your everyday surroundings you never know you might find something to fix, remove, or even admire.

Since I was a young kid, I enjoyed playing sports or participating in extracurricular activities. As I grew the things, I gravitated toward were mainly basketball and volleyball. These were the sports that I always enjoyed and did not see myself not participating in the sport any time soon. As much as I enjoy playing basketball, I never took the time to carefully look at a basketball picture I have taken and truly analyze it. I have been playing for so long, but I do not have many pictures to remember the activity I enjoy most. In some way when I play, my mind goes on autopilot and it becomes second nature. I took the time to look at one of the few basketball pictures I have because Maria Popova once said,” right now, you are missing the vast majority of what is happening around you. You are missing the events unfolding in your body, in the distance, and right in front of you" (Popova). Maria is trying to tell her audience that in one small moment so much can be happening and in a blink of an eye we can miss it all. When you take a photo, you stop time and capture all those little things you missed in the past. I personally connected to the line that read “the events unfolding in your body” because in this picture I stayed on campus late at night so that I can play basketball for an hour. I know that now I was tired, but my body was thanking me for keeping up with my health. Now that I am focusing on this picture, I see all the little details. For example, the time I played, where I played, what I decided to wear, and the fact that I wanted to share this moment with my friends on Snapchat. I chose this photo because looking back it provided a lot of details that I didn't even consider when it was first taken.

I am going to move on to a library that I been going to for years. Since I was a little kid I been going to the same library for years. Theirs things I didn't realized when I was a young kid till now a young adult. First, I want to start off how theirs a teen section in the library. Second, I realized that theirs a microscope you can use. Third, there’s so much useful tools you have in the library. When I was a kid it didn't matter to me at all. As a kid I will go to the library to play games or rent out a video games and read a book. Not realizing my surroundings and not much caring. As we get older, we get more aware of are surroundings and knowing what's around us. According to Maria Popova "I would find myself at once alarmed, delighted, and humbled at the limitations of my ordinary looking. My consolation is that this deficiency of mine is quite human. We see, but we do not see we use our eyes, but our gaze is glancing, frivolously considering its object. We see the signs, but not their meanings. We are not blinded, but we have blinders". To explain Maria Popova point she says a lot of important parts such as. She sees a moment that she's shocked, and thankful of her ordinary looking. She also says we don't pay attention to the little details in are day to day life. However, ask yourself a question like for example. Think of any park? But wait did a park from you're childhood come up or a park you seen before in your life. It's like second nature we do it without trying to think so hard.

The picture that you see on the left caught my eyes because I was admiring this moment. I told myself "that I need a picture". Instead of me looking at the bigger things that was around me. I found this butterfly in my backyard in my garden and me looking back at the moment that I took this image. I just realized how so little can be so beautiful. It's something I didn't really pay attention to because its something that's not as important. According to Maria Popova "Though paying attention seems simple, there are numerous forms of payment. … To concentrate, to pay attention, is viewed as a brow-furrowing exercise. Sit still, don’t blink, and attempt ". Maria goes on saying theirs paying attention seems simple but there are many ways to describe it. There are those that try to pay attention but don't get it. Also, those that out of interested in the conversation and those that concentrates which is more than paying attention. So, to truly pay attention you need to focus and clean your mind. An image can say a lot but its if you are willing to think deeper.

My daily driving route to school and the time it takes me to go and come from campus is the same every day. As the school year went on I adjusted my routine because now I am on campus for a longer amount of time. When I am driving, I sometimes do not give all my attention because driving to campus becomes second nature. I remember one day I told myself " pay more attention to the little details around you and notice the stuff may not see every day". When driving to school the next day I realized some things that I didn't notice before. For example, I saw that there is a police station on my way to school and I memorized some of the street names. Some of the annoying things I realized were the pole holes on the busy streets. Our eyes and mind filter out details that are not our fault. We are raised paying attention to our survival instincts while driving. I picked this picture because it was at night and while I was driving