Everyone has some form of mild super power. Maybe you can turn on the radio to the same song you are humming to yourself, maybe you can cook your oven chips perfectly without reading the directions or even timing the cooking time, maybe you are good at maths..
Me, I'm a noticer.
I didn't pick up on it at first because I thought everyone noticed things. The first time it came to my attention was when I was about 14. I stopped my Mum walking across a carpark because I noticed diamond shaped headlight bulbs, inside the headlights of one of the many 100's of regular headlight bulbed cars we were walking past. Mum wasn't fascinated by the headlight bulbs like I was but she had a bit of a chuckle at my intrigue.
It was 15 or so years later before somebody was so impressed with my noticing skills, that it prompted me to realise that I wasn't weird like everybody else had told me.. It was my gift.
There were a carload of us traveling past Toyota's national parts warehouse in Sydney. No big deal, 70km/h multi lane road, we were on our way to dinner.
However in my usual fashion I interrupted the conversation to turn everyones attention to the spikes on the fence..
They were little Toyotas on there. Very nifty I thought.
My friend however was struggling to comprehend how I managed to notice a tiny detail on a fence 30 metres away while traveling at 70km/h mid conversation..
"It's what I do" I said "I am a noticer.."
I try and use this mild superpower I have in my work. I often forget that others don't pick up on all the things I do so a lot of what I enjoy gets enjoyed only by me. The idea of this blog is to exercise my mind into capturing more every day detail, and sharing pictures I make, and stories I like, with anyone who is interested.
I hope it inspires others. Remember, everyone has a superpower, find yours and embrace it.