Making NonSense of It ... the answer starts with a question
We build our life up into something. Until we reach a point where it seems either meaningless, or overflows with needs. Life always seems to clank one way then the other, until the only way out seems to withdraw. Too much and not enough.
The Past used to be carefully curated, enshrined, slightly dusty gallery of exhibits. While we tend to mesh timelines, it is more and more an open-air mine of ideas, choices, opportunities. Wrongly done, it could become a sterile endless loop of recycled ideas, done right, we can create new elements by recombining the essence of the best of it. The Past could be the new future.
What will the people think? What will they remember about me? A common worry, even when we don’t care. Maybe...
Here you can read the theoretical approach behind my previous article “The Price We Pay”.
“You will pay for your choices!” We tend to look at our decisions and the price we pay for it in the rear-view mirror. What-ifs and regrets so often become part of our lives. What is the alternative?
Logics tells us that time should be either linear, cyclical or circular. However, our individual experience tells us something different. We live both simultaneously and exclusively in linear, cyclical and circular timelines.
If individual balance is a system forever balancing conflicting states, what happens when we meet other people? The whole balance gets questioned again. How to keep our integrity intact and remain ourselves?
A balanced life is a happy life… Then Life happens. And we do not feel balanced, at all. I would like to counter with: “Life is Movement. Movement is Imbalance. Imbalance is Chaos. Life is Chaos. Accepting imbalance is the first step to true happiness.”
Virtual companions, social filtering, truly global, deep roots, down to earth and the death of the phone call. The impact of Zoomers on tomorrow’s world.
If cultural shifts used to happen in London, New York or San Francisco, it has moved East to be led by the youth of Shanghai and Beijing.
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