dimanche, mai 21, 2006
passiveness
when they look back, what will they remember? "i followed this" "i liked this" "i went after this" "i went for this" "i bought this" "i had this"
but how much of it was just bought off-the-shelf, just taken and enjoyed, and how much was created, how much was their own.
like shopping for clothes, like watching TV, movies. why is it so popular, so easy, so 'enjoyable'? because it is easy, because it is passive. for that apparently little sum of money, you can pick up a ready-made product, well packaged and appreciable, worthy of some respect/recognition from other people. you absorb it, use it, display it. but it isn't any achievement nor progress. would you look back and say that year i watch this series and these movies, would you feel like you did anything substantial, anything to remember well by.
passiveness bores me. once you have the thing, once you buy the thing, that is all, that is final, it is the end of the life cycle of that object, it is gone. there is no further progress to be made, nothing to be created, nothing to change.
i told jx before, clothes. when you look back at last year, do you remember what clothes you wore, do you remember with pride that you bought that particular shirt or skirt, or bag. at that instantaneous moment in time, we are happy with what we buy, we enjoy it, we wear it use it flaunt it. no matter that it each individual item doesnt matter in the future, there is a lingering feeling that we dressed well, dressed nicely. but how much of it matters. in the end, how much difference is there?
hello.
passiveness
very sadly, it is all too apparent, all too easy, and too unnoticed. all the hordes of empty minds out there Following. fans, idols, etc.
when they look back, what will they remember? "i followed this" "i liked this" "i went after this" "i went for this" "i bought this" "i had this"
but how much of it was just bought off-the-shelf, just taken and enjoyed, and how much was created, how much was their own.
like shopping for clothes, like watching TV, movies. why is it so popular, so easy, so 'enjoyable'? because it is easy, because it is passive. for that apparently little sum of money, you can pick up a ready-made product, well packaged and appreciable, worthy of some respect/recognition from other people. you absorb it, use it, display it. but it isn't any achievement nor progress. would you look back and say that year i watch this series and these movies, would you feel like you did anything substantial, anything to remember well by.
passiveness bores me. once you have the thing, once you buy the thing, that is all, that is final, it is the end of the life cycle of that object, it is gone. there is no further progress to be made, nothing to be created, nothing to change.
i told jx before, clothes. when you look back at last year, do you remember what clothes you wore, do you remember with pride that you bought that particular shirt or skirt, or bag. at that instantaneous moment in time, we are happy with what we buy, we enjoy it, we wear it use it flaunt it. no matter that it each individual item doesnt matter in the future, there is a lingering feeling that we dressed well, dressed nicely. but how much of it matters. in the end, how much difference is there?
hello.
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