I feel like there are things in everyone's hearts - souls, if you will - that we all want to express. Sometimes there are people who know it and try to express it. Others simply ignore it.
I don't know how to explain it really, but when you meet someone whose heart language is similar to you, there is resonance. I don't mean something as simple or frivolous as love (well, not to minimize love, but sometimes that's the only time people acknowledge such deep connections and this is not the case). I want to call this resonance a connection of sorts.
People often chalked it up to similarities in background, upbringing, worldviews, moral stances, hobbies, etc. I want to disagree because this resonance seems to have depth. It's those moments when you meet someone and you just know you'll get along with them. Or that you'll be friends. Other times, it is through experience that you realize that this was someone you could've been good friends with, had circumstance been different.
There are things that get in the way of this resonance - the very things that people claim it is - upbringing, differences in opinion on the small matters, simply being on opposing sides of an argument, ways of operating, etc. I suppose another way of looking at it is that on a deeper level, people can connect, but other factors get in the way.
Sometimes, I feel like this generation has this desire to write - is it because of the field I'm in or does everyone and their moms want to write a book? Apparently this generation has this false sense that everything creative that comes out of it is made of gold, even if it's shit (so gold shit). I like to think that this means that this generation simply listens to the words written on its heart and tries to express it. It's a flowery way of looking at it, but sometimes there are things going on in the mind, things going on in the heart, feelings swimming around the body that need expression but words fail to be adequate.
People usually associate this kind of thinking and the feelings of limitation with artists but I still don't think myself as an artist. If I am an artist, so is everyone and their moms (again). I like to think that I'm just like everyone else, but I simply choose to think about these things and try to attune myself to the depth that every person is capable of having.
We marvel at certain things past generations were able to do, but to be quite honest, I don't think it's all that spectacular. If a generation is permeated with certain kinds of thinking or certain types of art forms, would not the generation reflect it, and from that, wouldn't certain people emerge as geniuses of that art form? We could have graphic design, computer graphic, gaming geniuses precisely because that is what our generation is surrounded by, could we not?
All this because I wanted to talk about Bentham but it turned into something else. We're so obsessed with loss and waste when sometimes, those very things are necessary for someone, or a generation, to learn. It sucks for the individual, but is not the lot one is given in life just that? A lot in life - some have it better, others do not. From that, isn't what one does with it and how one lives one's life that makes the difference? Basically, why decry something that cannot be changed - rather, take what one has and do what one can with it, right? If society can "equalize" things, great - but talent/energy/resources lost because society has not yet come up with a way to do so is foolish. This is why societies, people, and organizations evolve (well, this is the hope, anyway). Eh. There is background to this but at this point, I don't want to get into it.
No comments:
Post a Comment