Arthur W. Frank

"Holding onto that question—how did you spend today?—reminds me to feel and see and hear. It is too easy to become distracted. When the ordinary becomes frustrating, I have to remember those times when the ordinary was forbidden to me. When I was ill, all I wanted was to get back into the ordinary flux of activity. Now that I am back in the ordinary, I have to retain a sense of wonder at being here."

At the Will of the Body: Reflections on Illness
by Arthur W. Frank
Houghton Mifflin, New York, 1991
Page 134