Status Updates From Demian by Hermann Hesse

The war.

“I had forgotten that the world could still be so lovely. I had grown accustomed to living within myself. I was resigned to the knowledge that I had lost all appreciation of the outside world, and that the loss of its bright colors was an inseparable part of the loss of my childhood…But now, overjoyed, I saw that all this had only been buried…and that it was still possible…to see the world shine.”