Approaches to What?

This excerpt from Georges Perec's Approaches to What is like some sort of Buddhist manifesto in which he urges readers to measure their lives by the every day, not just by the spectacular. The every day, writes Perec, is so important yet so often overlooked and dismissed as tedious, uninteresting, monotonous. It is in these moments that we should look for meaning and truth in life; this is when we should feel truly alive.

Perec wants his readers to see the world with a child-like curiosity that is so often absent in modern society. Its a great point sure, but reading this made me wonder if humans have ever approached life with this kind of appreciation and wonder. We should appreciate the little things but is it really part of human nature? The more I think about this, the less sure I am of where I'm going with this argument.