es·tranged
–adjective
displaying or evincing a feeling of alienation; alienated.
fa·mil·i·ar·i·ty
–noun
thorough knowledge or mastery of a thing, subject, etc.
Something is wrong when you see the crescent moon and it does not elicit any sort of primal feeling, when it seems like just another fake backdrop to an all-too-familiar world. This undesirable state of being comes from a sort of estrangement from estrangement. Existence, for us self-conscious animals, should involve some sort of awe and wonder - it should not simply be another re-run of some popular television show. (We should not be masters of the universe.) For many, life has become too uninteresting, the world too unenchanted.
It is no question that the world is enchanted by life. Then shouldn't we feel this from time to time?
I know not everyone holds this to be dear to their philosophy, but perhaps everyone knows a similar problem: that it is so easy to fail to notice how short the time we have with those we love can be....
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