novelty the spice of life?

one might think that in everything novelty is everything.

check this list.

1. this blog will wear off. check it out in 6mths for regularity.

2. appearance. check out hairstyles for style and colours, the ranges of make-up, the variety of perfumes.

3. clothes. check out the charity shops and discover how novelty wears off the clothes people wear.

4 food. check out sainsburys for the ranges of cheeses, icecreams, sauces, soaps, shampoos.

5. toys. check out the boredom threshold of children with a new toy. and the novelty threshold of adults buying the latest gadgetry for the kitchen, the loo, the bedroom, the desk, the tv, the radio, the computer.

6. sex. check out the porn sites, radio programmes and sex shops. a little more titillation. a new partner, another couple, an extra man, an extra woman, with three or four, with gadgets

7. love. check out the broken relatiohships. more excitement. more fun. thrill of new face, new voice, new interests, new body.

8. houses. check out the redecoration madness, the throw away madness, the get-a-new-look madness. get a new house madness, a new garden in a day. homes and gardens used to grow old with its people, lived in and loved. now they are just passed through on the way to a novelty house.

how do you get out of the novelty machine the world has become. sure its no harm trying out clothes, cheeses and toys. but what if the novelty mind-set spills over into everything else. what if we see everything else as "old hat".

how do you then begin to find loveliness in the worn out family home, the familiar beloved faces, the known lover, the old nuances? and in your sparkling and exciting novelty world from where do you glean comfort, tenderness, warmth, laughter for they come not from novelty but from the dear, known, sometimes worn out and strangely beautiful familiarity.

novelty might be a very small something. but it is far from everything.