I have come to the conclusion that it's as you get older you learn to APPRECIATE the simplest things.  I can't imagine my teen-self getting quite so excited by freshly laundered cotton sheets or being quite as ecstatic at ^a big huge ice-cold glass of water filled with torn mint leaves and slices of cucumber.^ I am not sure when it all changed, if i think back i can't pin it down to one particular moment.  I have never seen myself as a particularly materialistic person anyway.  Whilst my heart skips a beat at the sight of a beautif…