"It's been there all the time, you just weren't paying attention!" my Mom's coworker 1977

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Many years ago my Mom worked for the IRS;  I won't forget a lesson she learned one day at work.   It was a particularly warm Philadelphia afternoon and the windows were wide open at the IRS building.  There was a lot of commotion outside of the main building as construction was well underway for expansion.  The usual silence that surrounded the workplace was interrupted with dueling jackhammers.  Mom said it was simply annoying.  There was no escaping the random explosion of crushing concrete.  Toward the end of her shift,  the construction had ceased and the jackhammers were quietly resting on the ground.  Mom stepped into the elevator;  preparing to leave work for the day.  Her ears still ringing from the clammer of the day, she noticed there was soft music playing in the elevator that day.  "How lovely",  she thought.  "They're blasting us with noise all day, then making up for it with music in the elevator."  Mom turned to a coworker in the elevator and asked, "When did they start playing music in the elevators for us?"   The coworker answered,  "Ruth,  the music has been piped into the elevators for years now.  It's been there all the time, you just weren't paying attention to it."   Mom turned this small event into a learning experience for me at 12 years of age.  She explained to me how we tend to overlook the usual pleasantries of life and focus on the obvious annoyances that come our way.  Sometimes comfort can cushion awareness and stress can tunnel our vision.