State of mind…
It seems to me that when you put yourself in a state of mind of not knowing what to expect, you are not startled by other things. Or, I should say, when you find yourself in that state of mind. Not that you would even “find” yourself there. It came to me as I walked around the compound. Little noises startled me. Flaps of tape on box cars that flapped in the wind. Those flaps were there the day before, and the day before that. It came to me that those noises did not startle me those previous days. But tonight they grabbed my attention. So I thought, was it because I was familiar with the environment?
So, because they caught my attention that moment, and had not before, I came to the conclusion that it was due to my familiarity with the environment. Thus, making me think that the reason I had not noticed it before, was because I was in a state of mind of not knowing what to expect.
~jibberish~