Sunday, January 27, 2013

Intrinsically

Took a morning class today and have since been daftly inspired to keep a hawking eye on Google searches and learn the riches of the world I never knew. Humans are distinguished from non-human life forms by the fact that we are accorded free-will. Non-humans are conditioned by their impulses and intuition towards their environments instead. Say, a flower that leans to the sun, or the stream that runs down the hill, or the lion that stalks its prey. Put that against us being free to close our eyes, run a marathon or graze at will along endless aisles of gigantic supermarkets. I could be completely plagiarizing over here, but I am much too inspired by the exact choice of words this said person of inspiration has put together that I am not going to do anything about it.

Has anyone else ever thought of this? That we are blessed with variety that has freed us from a past of insipid homogeneity. But ironically it is this sense of variety freely existing today that is something with which we are compelled to comply with, that diversity is the new conformity.

Put this into perspective of yesterday's series of events. When I went for the talks and exhibitions at the ballrooms I was blessed with more choices than I could afford. I am starting to learn to live in a delirium of choice and possibility. And that to an increasing degree, we mostly can have what we imagine we want. The mind is liquid and the mind is fickle. The mind is powerful and the mind is strange.

I don't know where I am going with this post but I think I'm going to leave this as is.
I am 27 days behind resolutions but by 31/12/13 I am going to be a more well-read person.

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