True experience begins when we break out of our routines

“What is an experience? Something that breaks a polite routine and for a brief period allows us to witness things with the heightened sensitivity afforded to us by novelty, danger, or beauty. To experience something is to fully open one’s eyes in a way that habit prevents us from doing, and if two people open their eyes in this way at the same time, then we can expect them to be drawn together by it.”
–Alain de Botton, On Love (1993)

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