Looking out of my wooden window painted white, I saw the brown wooden barks of trees that grew in my garden. The trees seemed somewhat misplaced. A little too neatly arranged. A little less familiar. Rather secluded and hardly reasonable.
And then, I was compelled to wonder if at all things are reasonable. The world seems to be trying so hard to convince me that it is so - that there is something about the human race, with its paramount intelligence and incomprehensible capacity to innovate that makes it, if not special, less ordinary- yet I somehow manage to sneak glimpses of its idiosyncrasies and loopholes every now and then.It's as if there is an apparent human order that is all-pervasive yet somehow there are always elements that are left out of this amazing compulsive and allusive regime. Is it that which we all watch it but don't allow ourselves to see.
At this point, I plugged my earphones into my ears and started listening to Radiohead. And looking at the scene outside of me and simply by myself and my thoughts, I felt as if my mind went into something of a trance. It's that feeling when your mind gets a kick out of nothing, and a heightened sense of everything. The lyrics begin to make perfect sense, the sound of every drumbeat and the strumming of every chord is heard to the extent of being felt and its a state that is purely achieved in the mind. In your mind.That was the state of my mind.
My mind was preoccupied with the thoughts of nature and how we human beings are so detached from it nowadays. How distant we have come to be from our physical origins and how much we would have to change our way of thought in order to bring ourselves closer to nature. And then my thoughts drifted to how that music was so therapeutic to that disturbing chasm between Nature and us.
But then it revealed itself to me, the fact that us and nature are not too far apart. We are nature herself. We may be one of the many million forms she is experimenting with and each one of us is 'natural' as the rest. since we are products of nature's scheme of things (the scheme, from whatever little I understand, is to simply create and flow with things) everything that we think/say/do is eventually an off-shoot of nature and that is how we are mere agents of evolution for nature.
Think about it before disregarding the point of view completely. It is very difficult to separate man from nature. It might be easy to classify plastic and 'artificial' and 'man-made' but I think it to be simply non-biodegradable. And leaving this particular case alone, it may not always be hazardous. Music, for instance. There is nothing natural about it, per se. The instruments were created by man. The sounds were all man-made. Their usage to create sounds and modulating voices to go with the music - what part of all this did 'Nature' teach us?
If you gather enough strength to deconstruct everything, you might be able to realize that even one of the elements - Fire , its creation and controlled use can then be understood as 'unnatural' in some twisted ways.
What I intend to stress upon is that the lines we simplistically draw between Natural and Artificial and correspondingly acceptable and unacceptable may not always be justifiable.
It might be slightly uncomfortable getting used to this idea at first but it might help in maing us all more tolerant and a little more creative.
And then, I was compelled to wonder if at all things are reasonable. The world seems to be trying so hard to convince me that it is so - that there is something about the human race, with its paramount intelligence and incomprehensible capacity to innovate that makes it, if not special, less ordinary- yet I somehow manage to sneak glimpses of its idiosyncrasies and loopholes every now and then.It's as if there is an apparent human order that is all-pervasive yet somehow there are always elements that are left out of this amazing compulsive and allusive regime. Is it that which we all watch it but don't allow ourselves to see.
At this point, I plugged my earphones into my ears and started listening to Radiohead. And looking at the scene outside of me and simply by myself and my thoughts, I felt as if my mind went into something of a trance. It's that feeling when your mind gets a kick out of nothing, and a heightened sense of everything. The lyrics begin to make perfect sense, the sound of every drumbeat and the strumming of every chord is heard to the extent of being felt and its a state that is purely achieved in the mind. In your mind.That was the state of my mind.
My mind was preoccupied with the thoughts of nature and how we human beings are so detached from it nowadays. How distant we have come to be from our physical origins and how much we would have to change our way of thought in order to bring ourselves closer to nature. And then my thoughts drifted to how that music was so therapeutic to that disturbing chasm between Nature and us.
But then it revealed itself to me, the fact that us and nature are not too far apart. We are nature herself. We may be one of the many million forms she is experimenting with and each one of us is 'natural' as the rest. since we are products of nature's scheme of things (the scheme, from whatever little I understand, is to simply create and flow with things) everything that we think/say/do is eventually an off-shoot of nature and that is how we are mere agents of evolution for nature.
Think about it before disregarding the point of view completely. It is very difficult to separate man from nature. It might be easy to classify plastic and 'artificial' and 'man-made' but I think it to be simply non-biodegradable. And leaving this particular case alone, it may not always be hazardous. Music, for instance. There is nothing natural about it, per se. The instruments were created by man. The sounds were all man-made. Their usage to create sounds and modulating voices to go with the music - what part of all this did 'Nature' teach us?
If you gather enough strength to deconstruct everything, you might be able to realize that even one of the elements - Fire , its creation and controlled use can then be understood as 'unnatural' in some twisted ways.
What I intend to stress upon is that the lines we simplistically draw between Natural and Artificial and correspondingly acceptable and unacceptable may not always be justifiable.
It might be slightly uncomfortable getting used to this idea at first but it might help in maing us all more tolerant and a little more creative.
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