Throughout the history of man we have always been in awe of things…. for five minutes then we lose interest. For example how fire cooks food, how the oceans have tides, how the stars come out at night, how trees and vegetation grow. Even as our technology grows so does our apathy toward it. The wonders of cars, planes, television, electronics has all but disappeared. Even space took a backseat with Apollo 13, only one mission removed from landing the first men on the moon. It’s sad but we have lost our sense of wonder.
This past weekend I stopped to get gas for my car. I put it on the auto fill and let it go until it stopped. I went to round off the amount to the next even dollar and found it had auto perfect pumped. I was impressed and told some family members about it. They didn’t find it as cool as I did but that didn’t matter to me, I thought it was cool and still do.
It’s no secret that people are getting less and less satisfied with their lives. I believe this is in part due to our loss of wonder. The more we build and the more we invent the more we become apathetic. Long gone are the days where we would just sit and marvel at God’s creation. Instead of contemplating, well, anything, we want the next thing. We focus too much on external devices to make us content rather than rely on wonder. But it’s the wonder, the mystery, the search that makes life interesting.
What about you, do you get too wrapped up in external devices to find contentment? Next time you go to make a phone call or text someone think about all that is involved in that process. How a piece of plastic, some small amounts of metal and 1s and 0s can take what you are thinking, send them in invisible waves across the country to someone else’s metal and plastic box and then relay it back to something the eye or ear can see or hear. Or next time your at the pump and you get an even amount think about it and renew your wonder of the perfect pump.
Attempt it. Chance it. Try it. Get to It!