Effort.

There are very few classes you take in college that stick with you, kind of like there are very few teachers you remember fondly from high school. I do remember an English Composition 123 course I took from the first college I attended. It was an interesting course taught by a woman who used to be a hippie. Stereotypical English professor right, or so I remember now.

One of the professor's assignments was to describe a brick from one of the buildings on campus. This is one assignment I didn't spend a lot of time on completing. Picking a brick at random while standing in the quad is what I remember doing. I wrote a quick battleship description. Stupid task and it frustrated me. After all how many bricks did I walk past everyday walking through campus to my classes. But I remembered the assignment for some reason. Looking back I realize I didn't look hard enough. I hadn't put in the effort to find a brick that interested me.

That memory resonates now. Substitute the object, but the subject and verb haven't changed. I tend to accentuate the verb with the addition of an adverb now.