“He then separated himself from her in order to have the pleasure of returning to her” (Jose de Alencar, Iracema, 77).

How often do we do this in life? We love something so much that after we are with it for a bit we put it back in its box, or room, or wherever it came from just so we can come back to it later and love it just as much as the first time we were with it? For example: a delicious chocolate cake.

You eat a piece of it and love every bite. Then you put it away for a while and come back to it later to enjoy yet another wonderful piece of chocolate cake. You find yourself doing this again and again because it is just that amazing! If you ate the whole cake at once the joy and deliciousness of it would wear off and even have the risk of becoming loathsome to you.

Some would say that is too much of a good thing...

On the other hand we have the Mexican painter Jose Maria Velasco who was born and raised in Mexico and painted the valley of Mexico countless times, always finding new aspects of beauty and wonder in the landscape around him. He never seemed to tire of that valley.

So what makes the difference? Are some people born with that feeling of the need to change, keep moving on to new things, or do people chose that kind of a mentality? And if you are born with a certain outlook, can you change that perception with time or is it simply too ingrained in your nature?

Is there any real way to find out?