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I find myself wanting to stare out of the window for at least 2 mintues straight, committing the whole view to my memory, for many spaces I’m in. The higher up off the ground it is, or the further you can see, the better it is.

If I don’t get my 2-5 minutes of window time the window will distract me every time I’m in that room. I’ll steal glances, convinced that something changed without me noticing.

Not like that, not really.

But in the before times when I worked in an office, there was a good half year where a big building opposite my window was being torn down. A few times a no th when something awesome was happening (like smashing the walls with an excavator) folks would hang out and just watch for chunks of time.

Doing that is great for your eyes!

Does anybody else get so distracted by a good view out of the window?

So distracted that…what? Did you just mean distracted by a good view?

All the time. Well when I have a window. They don’t give engineers windows anymore, except the shitty Microsoft kind

Sure.

We used to be in an 11th floor office on the water and the view out of those windows was like eating a piece of cake, it was so beautiful. And once at the job before that, the shipping manager came to laugh at me & my coworker, grown-ass women, because we were watching a construction crane out the window at work, we were both fascinated with it. Because it was fascinating!

I’ve always been really into clouds, so I get distracted fairly often.

But I think it’s really awesome to just look outside. I feel like people aren’t as keen to just absorb the world around them or to be curious about all that’s around us.

I stopped my partner on a walk recently to listen to the bees in the freshly blooming tree we were under. She said she never would have noticed.

I’ve gotten that same answer from others when I’ve said that I love walking through neighborhoods and smelling when someone is doing laundry. It just smells really good and it makes me feel good.