Perspectives change...
Here's a little mental widget that I've been playing with all morning.
(this entry best with "simple kind of man" playing in the background..)
I think right up in to our twenties we live in this bubble of ignorant bliss, where we understand how the world works, and our place in it. We know what's right and wrong. We know how we are going fill a void in the world and where or how we will live our lives out. Of course we also have no problems sharing this, our life view, with the rest of the world either. We'll tell anyone who will listen all about how we've got it down. Our main fear is getting older and losing sight of our unique and perfect perspective.
Approaching and into our thirties, it seems to me people begin to understand that we really have no idea about how the world works. Nor do we have any clue as to what our place is in it. We don't want to talk about how we're getting along for fear of showing to the world the ignorance we hide inside. We begin to realize that maybe the void isn't out there in the world, but in ourselves. And our main fears revolve around survival basics, food, shelter and companionship and the means by which to get and keep them..
Then and this is a presumtion of course, or rather it would seem to me through an outside perspective, and not first hand, that in the forties and fifties we revert to an ignorant bliss. Been there done that, I know how the world really works, and my place in it! And these folks have no qualms what so ever about telling you how the world works. What skills are truly useful, what goals are worthwhile, what ends are truly worth achieving.
It's like the ancient sphinx parable about what crawls on four legs in the morning walks on two during the day and on three at night. Men. Who crawl on all fours as an infant until they gain the strength and knowledge to pick themselves up and walk throughout the midday of their life until as the midnight of their years approach they walk with the assitance of cane like a three legged animal... But still it's all about perspective. Think about it.
Brad
(this entry best with "simple kind of man" playing in the background..)
I think right up in to our twenties we live in this bubble of ignorant bliss, where we understand how the world works, and our place in it. We know what's right and wrong. We know how we are going fill a void in the world and where or how we will live our lives out. Of course we also have no problems sharing this, our life view, with the rest of the world either. We'll tell anyone who will listen all about how we've got it down. Our main fear is getting older and losing sight of our unique and perfect perspective.
Approaching and into our thirties, it seems to me people begin to understand that we really have no idea about how the world works. Nor do we have any clue as to what our place is in it. We don't want to talk about how we're getting along for fear of showing to the world the ignorance we hide inside. We begin to realize that maybe the void isn't out there in the world, but in ourselves. And our main fears revolve around survival basics, food, shelter and companionship and the means by which to get and keep them..
Then and this is a presumtion of course, or rather it would seem to me through an outside perspective, and not first hand, that in the forties and fifties we revert to an ignorant bliss. Been there done that, I know how the world really works, and my place in it! And these folks have no qualms what so ever about telling you how the world works. What skills are truly useful, what goals are worthwhile, what ends are truly worth achieving.
It's like the ancient sphinx parable about what crawls on four legs in the morning walks on two during the day and on three at night. Men. Who crawl on all fours as an infant until they gain the strength and knowledge to pick themselves up and walk throughout the midday of their life until as the midnight of their years approach they walk with the assitance of cane like a three legged animal... But still it's all about perspective. Think about it.
Brad
posted by Brad O'Brien at 2:11 PM
2 Comments:
I use to think I knew what was up. And now its like you said, everything I thought I knew makes no sense to me now....I liked the bliss but it leaves you numb....
I honestly believe you should be a writer. Your words always strike a chord in whoever reads them. They apply to our personal qualms about life as well as showing us that we all share the same qualms. Like, we all have our own cars, but yet we travel on the same roads everyday. And the rules don't change or personalize for anyone. You need to Keep writing, I rely on it for my daily dose of Zen, and your words feed the ebb and flow of my constantly evolving perspective and appreciation for this journey.
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