Is it human nature to take everything for granted? To accept something incredible as normal, I guess, is needed for our survival, where adaptability may mean life or death in prehistoric times. We should be able to build knowledge into our instincts, to work and move efficiently without minding too much about our surroundings.
Slowly the child in us matured. Perhaps our inner psyche deemed us enough to survive without having to continuously learn, that we can move on and keep being alive just fine.
But with it comes also the lack of joy.
There's this video I watched, of a story of a man who lost the ability to feel. A dull world of nothingness where everything feels, means, seems the same. To recover, he had to have everything redefined to him, rederscribed and reassociated. By doing this, the other person and himself is forced to pay attention to the tiniest bit of everything, rediscovering textures and colors and smell and warmth, the details of all the sounds, the combination of the damp air and vivid colors and wet earth. The way each and every of these simple, tiny things contribute to our way of percepting everything, the delicate and complex ways our feelings are formed.
Perhaps this video is parallel to the way we live right now. Rushing through things and ignoring our senses, the tiny bits of stories. Emptiness had consumed us all in this over-saturated world.
Need we time to re-learn everything, once at a time?
To be able to always feel everything as if it's new...
Source : systemofadowney.tumblr.com
I always wondered how I did it before.
Maybe it's easier to always experience everything when you hold no prejudice, of preexisting knowledges, of expectations to yourself and everything around you. Like a child, and like an alien. Unconnected to this world, uncaring and unassuming.
Can we connect without taking away our wonders?
Let we try
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