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I answered the knock at our front door and he came barreling\nright in yelling \u201cGrandma, Grandma – I\u2019m Spiderman!!!\u201d There he was, my two year old grandson with a\nSpiderman mask on his face and a Disney Cars backpack on his back. He ran in the door all wide-eyed and full of\nexcitement pretending to shoot spider webs from his hands. He jumped up on the\ncouch to have us look at his little Spiderman shoes and then called out for his\nPapa (Grandpa) to come and play cars with him. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Together he and Papa dragged a box full of matchbox racing tracks\nand began building a racetrack that went from the couch down to the floor. Still touting his Spiderman mask and his\nDisney Cars backpack he began to send the matchbox cars down the hill. He would shout with excitement as each car\nmade it to the end of the track and then hurriedly run to grab it so he could\nsend it down the track again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
As I sat watching the scene I couldn\u2019t help but appreciate his sense of wonder. He has wide-eyed excitement about even the smallest things. To him, all of life is a grand adventure. He doesn\u2019t see a couch as simply a couch, but a hill he can build a racetrack on for his cars can go racing down. He doesn\u2019t see a piece of fabric as simply fabric, but a superhero cape that gives him the ability to fly. Everything is something new to be discovered and there are no limits because he can imagine whatever he chooses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As grown-ups its so easy to become desensitized to all the little wonders that surround us. We find ourselves taking on more of a \u201cbeen there, done that\u201d attitude rather than viewing things with that wide-eyed excitement we did as a child. We begin to dread the day to day and we view things as drudgery. We adopt the attitude that only a big trip or an audacious plan can provide us any excitement. Our sense of wonder dwindles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But we don’t have to lose that sense of wonder if we don’t want to. We can make a conscious choice to see the world the way my little grandson does – we can choose to see a world where ANYTHING is possible and all it takes to be a superhero is to put on a mask. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n\n\n\n