You will never experience this precise sequence of events ever again in your lifetime
Unless you're reading this while sitting completely still in an otherwise empty vacuum and even then your eye would be twitching or something.
It can be very easy to think that tomorrow will be the same as today.
Predictive Processing theory suggests that the brain defaults to what it already knows, that generating predictions about its surroundings is more energy efficient than working from actual sensory data all of the time… but that is a useful idea for another day.
Taking photos on a city street can jolt me out of this normalcy bias / change blindness. Take the photos a few minutes apart. So much will have changed. I wonder if that’s part of the appeal of photography? That our auto pilot has to be switched off to reach the level of heightened awareness needed to see what’s in front of us?
Approximately 2,400 years ago, in the dialogue Cratylus, Plato gets Socrates to paraphrase Heraclitus:
”Heracleitus says, you know, that all things move and nothing remains still, and he likens the universe to the current of a river, saying that you cannot step twice into the same stream.”
You will never experience this precise sequence of events ever again in your lifetime.
Everything is in flux. Act accordingly.
Elsewhere
One minute fifty seconds into the Anna Erhard - Cut it Out video, when the right people are in place, and they have the energy and enthusiasm to be on the streets of Berlin late on New Years Eve 2019 and the camera is on and charged and pointing in the right direction and fireworks explode all around.