Living your life like an outsider looking in is a reality a lot of us weren’t prepared for. This has spoken to something thats been in my head a lot this year, and it’s nice to see someone put it into words💯
I wonder how old/young you are? I wonder if you grew up with TV , game shows, Netflix, constant social media, instagram etc.? That makes a difference cos with all this visual stimuli there’s always a camera angle .. I grew up in New Zealand which was late to build TV repeater stations as it’s a very mountainous country and the government of the day did not want to make TV (black and white to start with only for three hours per evening) available until I was 13. Even then many families did not have a set and people would gather in front of a store front to watch a horse race or a football game. I think one of the consequences of this was we read a lot, played music, listened to the radio and discussed what we heard, ate as a family, played board games and cards etc. We also worked in the garden, ran errands and went tramping (hiking) and went on family outings quite a lot. It is a very different world today. I think there is not much room now for digesting, thinking and feeling about experiences, let alone time for creativity to emerge from deep within. We knew much less about the details of what was going on in the world as it happened, but maybe much more history and geography. I didn’t hear anyone discuss this issue until maybe ten years ago…
We’re all out here waiting for the cinematic swell of strings, but usually, it’s just us standing in a room wondering if we’re doing it right. I love the idea that maybe meaning is something we just retroactively edit in later.
Living your life like an outsider looking in is a reality a lot of us weren’t prepared for. This has spoken to something thats been in my head a lot this year, and it’s nice to see someone put it into words💯
I wonder how old/young you are? I wonder if you grew up with TV , game shows, Netflix, constant social media, instagram etc.? That makes a difference cos with all this visual stimuli there’s always a camera angle .. I grew up in New Zealand which was late to build TV repeater stations as it’s a very mountainous country and the government of the day did not want to make TV (black and white to start with only for three hours per evening) available until I was 13. Even then many families did not have a set and people would gather in front of a store front to watch a horse race or a football game. I think one of the consequences of this was we read a lot, played music, listened to the radio and discussed what we heard, ate as a family, played board games and cards etc. We also worked in the garden, ran errands and went tramping (hiking) and went on family outings quite a lot. It is a very different world today. I think there is not much room now for digesting, thinking and feeling about experiences, let alone time for creativity to emerge from deep within. We knew much less about the details of what was going on in the world as it happened, but maybe much more history and geography. I didn’t hear anyone discuss this issue until maybe ten years ago…
Hindsight is 20-20. This post spoke to me. Thank you!
Live life!
We’re all out here waiting for the cinematic swell of strings, but usually, it’s just us standing in a room wondering if we’re doing it right. I love the idea that maybe meaning is something we just retroactively edit in later.