My #EscalatorStory & why I need to re-live it everyday; When I was only about 5 years old growing up in North Bay there was a department store downtown called Walker’s. What made it so memorable for me was that it had an escalator. There was only one & it only went up...

...but it was the first one I had ever seen, and would ever see for many years. I pleaded with my mom often to bring me to Walker’s just so I could ride the escalator, run down the stairs and ride it up again...

Imagine my excitement the first time I ever went to Toronto when I was about 10 years old. Escalators! Everywhere! This was amazing. And they not only went up, some went down...

I don’t know when it happened but that excitement waned over time. So much so that now I use an escalator 9 or 10 times a day and don’t give it a second thought. That was until I saw a dad crouched down with his young daughter at the bottom of an escalator one day...

She was pointing in obvious amazement, watching those metal stairs disappear and reappear, just like I had once upon a time. The expression of wonder on her face jolted my memories of the wonder I too used to have for escalators. This was a wake-up call for me...

Every moment of every day we are surrounded by wonders. We ride the subway, we take an elevator, we turn on a light. It gets harder and harder to impress us. What chance does the miracle of a blue sky or even a simple snowfall have to fill us with any sort of wonder. So...

Now I try to awaken that little boy inside me again whenever I use an escalator. I’ve stopped walking up them and instead choose to stand and remind myself how amazing this thing is. I challenge you...

Stop right now. Look around. What truly amazing things are in front of you right now? Give it a sec & let them come into true focus. Life’s not hum-drum or routine.Every second of every day we live in an amazing world, if you aren’t too old to see it. What’s your #EscalatorStory?