NOVELTY OF THE FIRST TIME (THE SEQUEL)

Hey You!

If you have not read my post on the novelty of the first time or the thrill of the first time as I dubbed it in verbal repetition, I’d advise you to do so. Simply scroll all the way to my earlier posts. Of course, you can choose to read this post as a standalone but it might be insightful to gain perspective.

As a recap, I emphasized the need to savour the first experience of an event in the making of a memory, to recognize novelty before it becomes a routine that you almost start to take for granted.

Today, I am going in a similar direction but from a different street.

The message is simple- you will have many firsts.

Let this knowledge bring tranquillity.

Take this from a seasoned overthinker, yeah, that’s me.

Back on track, it is better to expatiate by saying that, no first can be compared to the previous first of an event but each first experience is as mesmerizing as every other first you’d get to experience. That thrill is the very essence of novelty.

Was the last paragraph confusing?

I am simply saying that no first is comparable with the other, but some firsts have the capacity to erase a missed first. Ok, I think I am getting too philosophical. whew!

In a love analogy, your first experience may indeed be everything….the first time you really let yourself go and fall head over heels for someone, your first heartbreak (agreed we hope there won’t be many of this but you can’t argue that each heartbreak isn’t different).

The point is that when you fall in love at sixteen, the feeling of butterflies and all doesn’t mean that will be the only time you’d fall in love. It’d probably happen again with more clarity and maybe with no butterflies. Sure, it is not exactly the first time you are falling in love but it will still be a first if you get what I mean?

“Firsts” come and go. Sometimes though, they repeat themselves in different ways. This is what makes life interesting. Being able to experience novelty even from a routine. To extract exotic from mundane.

I know I said in my last post that the first time has to be savored, I still maintain that…don’t hurry through your experiences, enjoy each turbulence and calm it brings but if you missed your novelty for whatever reason, don’t worry, you can just go ahead and create a new first or wait around for the next one.

Trust me, it’d show up again, differently, but definitely as a first.

Till I find another perspective on this…

Enjoy the many firsts that is sure to come your way.

xoxo,

Dcconnoisseur.