RE: A Manifesto to Slow Down: November 5 2021
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Thanks, my friend! I appreciate your words, but I feel in some sense the opposite. Or let me rephrase. I am a kind of romantic (not the modern sense of the word, more 1800s): I feel saddened that others won't slow down as well. I feel sad to appreciate the world like this alone and that trying to help others result in wasted time more often than not. But in a more modern sense, I fully agree with you. Slowing down and appreciating the mundane and every day leads to a "fuller" life that might lead to happiness.
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Ya I hear what your saying. Sometimes I think people are afraid to slow down. How could they possibly accumulate all of things they are conditioned to think that they need, if they slowed down and saw the beauty in the simple and banal things in life.
Exactly! It can sometimes be a shock to people's system and daily routine to slow down and think about things they have never really thought about. In art, there is this cool term: ostranenie or defamiliarisation. It is when you take everyday banal things and put it in a new light (literally or figuratively) and in doing so make it look unfamiliar or strange. Very strange but so interesting when you see it. I try to do it with my photography.
Nice.... I love learning new things. And that's new to me... I must give it a go...
We can never stop learning! Or, I am a student for life. Like a sponge that soaks up water haha
Same as myself and it's a good way to be I reckon. Every day's a learning day..
Indeed! Precious time that we can use to soak up so much. And on hive, there is so much to learn. It is a microcosm of information that never stops. Which is awesome! But I wish I had more time.