Some actions repeat so often that they seem to belong to the background of a day.
A hand reaches for the same object. A path is taken again. A familiar motion returns in the same order it has many times before.
The action itself changes very little.
Still, it does not always feel identical.
One repetition may seem lighter. Another may feel slower. A familiar movement may appear more visible on one occasion than it did a moment earlier.
Nothing in the action needs to be different for this to happen.
The same gesture can remain the same gesture, while the sense of it shifts quietly from one moment to the next.
These differences are usually small.
They do not interrupt the repetition.
They pass through it.
And because of that, repetition does not always flatten a moment. Sometimes it makes small variations easier to notice.