This!Seeing the ocean for the first time.Falling in love, especially the first time. Seeing Denali the first timeBecoming a parent.Seeing the Milky Way the first time. Flying for the first time. SCUBA diving in reef and/or sunken ship for the first timeSkiing off a cliff and landing it. Sky diving.Running a marathonWhite water rafting in a slot canyon.Hanging your head of a 3000' cliff for an extend period.Seeing Manhattan for the first time. Looking our of sky scraper in a city center in a metropolis of 20+ millionAll awe inspiring. All have diminishing returns of awe the more often you do it. And yet I strongly feel that one of the great daily experience of awe which most people used to experience now being a thing of the past, seeing the milky way, has a direct correlation between increased rates anxiety and depression. Getting a daily does of awe, even a lessor awe, is now mostly in the purview of the rural poor and the wealthy. Most people in the world live in urban areas. Most of the world's urban areas are polluted, both with light and in the natural areas in their vicinity.  Access to unpolluted nature now largely requires a trip. Suburban areas with clean nature (but still polluted light) is out of the budget of most urban residents. Most people can't take a trip very often.

This!Seeing the ocean for the first time.Falling in love, especially the first time. Seeing Denali the first timeBecoming a parent.Seeing the Milky Way the first time. Flying for the first time. SCUBA diving in reef and/or sunken ship for the first timeSkiing off a cliff and landing it. Sky diving.Running a marathonWhite water rafting in a slot canyon.Hanging your head of a 3000' cliff for an extend period.Seeing Manhattan for the first time. Looking our of sky scraper in a city center in a metropolis of 20+ millionAll awe inspiring. All have diminishing returns of awe the more often you do it. And yet I strongly feel that one of the great daily experience of awe which most people used to experience now being a thing of the past, seeing the milky way, has a direct correlation between increased rates anxiety and depression. Getting a daily does of awe, even a lessor awe, is now mostly in the purview of the rural poor and the wealthy. Most people in the world live in urban areas. Most of the world's urban areas are polluted, both with light and in the natural areas in their vicinity.  Access to unpolluted nature now largely requires a trip. Suburban areas with clean nature (but still polluted light) is out of the budget of most urban residents. Most people can't take a trip very often.

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