After a long time, I had my first off on a Sunday. The weather is friendlier with lingering suspense of rainfall. It is my favorite kind of weather. Too cold for a t-shirt, too hot for a windbreaker. The smell of rain in the air, and a sunny day calmed by the clouds. With all that is happening, I ventured to take a long walk in the public. Something I have been putting off for health reasons.
It would be unright to say that I wasn't expecting more people craving a little normalcy as I did. Technically, being one in a million is still being similar to 7000 since there are a little over 7 billion of us. But at the same time, I was very prepared to be shocked by the epiphany.
I was reminded of a quote from the Punisher series. Something along the lines of torture isn't as physical as it is mental. Some crack earlier than the next simply because of their mental tenacity. Torture is more of stripping out the "routine" humans are very attached to. It is breaking off the routine we love and live by, the routine that we often tend to label as the "human" factor.
Once the routes of routine are sliced off, the threads of normalcy start to rip apart, and then we have the beginning of torture. A pretty slick piece of philosophy in such a meathead, action-filled series. Ironic.
It was nice being part of a "normal" civilization, again. Even if for a small moment. Spending time between others doing the same thing like I was, partaking in what made us feel human. Some went out with their grandparents who have seen the dreadful days of the USSR, some reading a book about an uneventful love story, some having a chat with their partners. I was there taking pictures of the beautiful day.
No one innately wants to be part of a growing problem. But what gives when the problem is as much as real as it is politically driven to madness.
I was out there, just like all of them. For the same reasons. Just as the people of Nagasaki and Hiroshima rebuilt their cities. Just like some of the victims of the Chernobyl incident went back to their villages. Maybe stupid, maybe human. Chasing normalcy.
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I see no one has a mask in the park though.
What an obvious observation.
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