There was a busker playing his violin just outside Washington DC metro station. He had a cap on, he had his cap on and was wearing normal busker clothes. He was playing one of the most expensive violins ever and some of the most beautifully composed music from the most talented artists and talented composers.
The funny thing; a thousand and 97 people walked past and barely anyone noticed it, barely anyone connected, barely anyone was really engaged. In just under an hour he’d just accrued about just over 30 dollars, and that’s not a bad amount for a busker but the fascinating thing was just a week before he’d sold out an arena for 100 dollars per seat.
This was actually a social experiment conducted by the Washington Post which was meant to answer the question do we see the beauty when we see it unexpectedly? Are we not able to observe beauty, observe talent? Is it that we miss the most amazing things in the world just because we don’t see them on television or they are not presented to us in a certain format, or in a certain package, or in a certain box?
I believe you should focus your life on observing the little things because one day you will look back and realize that they were the things; we miss the sparks of brilliance, we miss the joys of nature, we miss the blooming of flowers, we miss all of these sensations. But reducing your pace of life doesn’t mean becoming slower or less ambitious. It actually means that we take out more time to regenerate, rejuvenate and re-energize ourselves.
The challenge is that we often confuse the noise of our ego with the voice of intuition. But actually the more we tune out of the space we are in, we can tune in into that intuition. We can actually find how we can be guided and navigated in life, because big egos have little ears, and that means we can’t hear properly.
The truth is everything has beauty, everything has life, everything has energy, but we just don’t have the eyes to see it, we don’t have the eyes to perceive it and we don’t have the eyes to appreciate it. But we can have those, we can actually develop them inside, we can develop new ways of looking at things simply by becoming more attentive, by becoming more mindful, by becoming better observers of reality rather than participants.