Miracle

I always knew that this was said by Albert Einstein, but this December edition of Reader's Digest confirmed it in the Quotes section

“There are only two ways to live life. One is as though nothing is a miracle, the other as though everything is a miracle.”

From as long as I can remember I have always been intrigued by each and everything that kept happening around me. Every small little thing kept fascinating me. I am not talking about some butterfly in some garden or a sunset at the beach (which are standard items for people to reminiscence about), I am referring to the normal lives of people and how each of them reacts to the same things differently. In school, I honestly loathed certain students because of their behavior in class. I just couldn't believe that they could be so careless towards studies or that they could behave in such an irresponsible manner as they did, most importantly I couldn't comprehend why or what made them the way they were (they were kids I know, but then I was one too). Gradually this loathing turned into a fascination which ultimately led me to become a kinda psychoanalyst of people. So what was as a kid shocking to me became the most miraculous thing as I grew up. A miracle which gradually turned into a fact of life. I began to accept not just the behavior of people in all its entirety but I became more & more sure about my own behavior in all situations.
I just opened up my mind to all possibilities of people and their attitudes. Nothing seemed abnormal or wrong. My definitions of good, bad, wrong, right, beautiful,ugly had to undergo radical changes if I was to accept this truth of life and trust me radical is a very mild word to describe the changes I underwent. Nothing seemed to amaze me anymore, it was as if I had fully come to terms with the miracle called Life. It was not that my feelings became numbed because of the daily drudgery, but its just that a miracle ceases to be a miracle once you accept that it is a miracle. So this miracle of the variety of people and their personalities actually has become a daily routine.

The list of things which I find miraculous is too big to even imagine, so let me put it as 'if I don't find anything miraculous that itself is a miracle'. So in one way I am treating everything as a miracle and this very acceptance of miracle in everything means that I am treating nothing as a miracle.