Greet the day as it is—that is, as something incalculably novel. When you wake and say it’s a “new day,” let yourself linger on the first word of that phrase. You’ve arrived somewhere foreign, no matter how familiar it may seem at first glance. Greet it as you would any new port of call, especially on mornings when you’re lucky enough to wake without an itinerary already in place.
As anyone who has done even a small bit of traveling knows, some of the best moments happen when you’re not heading anywhere in particular. The sophisticated traveler never makes an end goal of checking off specific sites; rather, they’re after a more general accumulation of sense perception. This is what is meant by the phrase “getting a sense of a place.” But this is only possible to achieve with enough moment-to-moment sensitivity, something that novelty naturally enhances.
Oh, new day, what long dreaming has finally brought me here! Whatever I have to do today, let me make sure to do a little open-ended exploring as well! And if I wake with no specific plans, it only means I have more time to take in everything in general! What a blessing to be given another day to get a sense of!
A creative, persuasive way to say, "Carpe diem".