As we grow older, it becomes harder to feel the mystery and wonder we had as children. It is not, however, a result of having grown out of the need for desire for mystery and wonder; it is, rather, that adults have far more practical experience. Practical experience answers questions, and it also implants fear, worry, jealousy, and other negative emotions. Adults become so wrapped up in the day-to-day that they push out mystery and wonder.
Many people believe that children have some special ability to appreciate mystery and feel wonder, but that is untrue. Children simply have no bills to pay, no work life to balance, comparatively weak social pressures, and little imagination when it comes to "things that can go wrong and leave us homeless and hungry". Adults have the exact same ability they always had, but their mystery is "How will I make it through the end of the month?" and their wonder is "I wonder if that spot is cancer?"
What adults need to do is to cultivate the mystery and wonder they once felt and use it to live a more exciting inner life. One way we are helping to instill this kind of mystery and wonder in random adults is through The Tiny Art Project.
The Tiny Art Project is where we create tiny pieces of art, any medium, and putting it into tiny frames (2" or smaller.) These tiny frames can be pinned or stuck in unlikely public places where adults can see the art, appreciate the beauty, wonder how it was made, and marvel in the mystery of how it got there and why anyone would do such a thing.
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