Shades of Blue: What We Learned to Want

There was a time when the world was measured by supermarket aisles. When sitting inside a shopping cart felt like an adventure, and the shelves stretched higher than dreams. We laughed without knowing we were learning. We watched without knowing we were becoming. Every trip seemed ordinary, yet each one quietly taught us what to reach for, what to admire, what to believe would make life complete. Perhaps that is how growing up happens, not all at once, but in countless ordinary moments that never ask to be remembered. The child eventually climbs out of the cart. But some of us spend the rest of our lives pushing one. When did your desires become your own... and when were they simply handed to you?