Always Something New

This post draws on some of my other recent posts.
Not long ago I posted about how getting joy out of little things makes you a good candidate for living forever. A few posts later I posted a movie of a bunny washing it's nose.
So how are these two related?
I worked with someone for  a while who was kind of a punk. When a bunch of us got excited about seeing a bald eagle fly overhead he said "who cares guys. After seeing 200 of them they are just birds." But if you have that opinion after 200 I'm not sure he didn't have that opinion after 5.
Yesterday I went on a walk with my nephews. We passed some calves and they got really excited about them wanting to go pet them which they did. I hung back at first. I've see calves before afterall. But then I got close and petted their soft noses and one of them licked my fingers with a surprisingly long, skinny, rough tongue. Never been licked by a calf. Another one tried to eat the hand cord of my camera. It got all slimy.  I was glad I went up close, and look at them just a little bit closer.
The thing with calves and bald eagles and bunnies is that there is always something else to learn from them. I had never seen a bunny clean it's nose before in real life (just animated bunnies doing it). And if you look at it that way everything can be excited.
Something else that helps me stay in that mindset that I like to think about is the following questions:
How would I draw that? What colors would I use? What is the contours?
How would I describe this if I was writing it?
You have to pay attention if you really want to make an experience come alive for someone else whether through visuals or language. And if you are paying attention enough to do that then suddenly it seems far more new than it had before whether the experience is actually new or you are just being more observant this time.