A wonderful reflection and even more wondrous photography. Impressive aesthetics you achieved with those images. I loved the one of the "flying" squirrel.
I struggle all the time with content, not for lack of it, but for the abundance of it and the predominant direction I tend to take that content. It is certainly true that unless we look for that content that will make us feel content, it is not going to come to us; unless, of course, we have wild imagination and talent to write about things that are not happening to us, as if they were.
I think that it all comes down to confidence and a certain talent to turn your experience into a content that can be enjoyed by others. Consciously or not, over here we have surrounded ourselves by experiences that generate rather repetitive and depressive content. It becomes a struggle to change the subject matter or allow more trivial or cheerful events to take over the overwhelming amount of crap that rains on us every day.
We keep picking and choosing, but when I look at it the way you have pictured it here, it is a serious matter to allow our experiences to shape who we become as content. Our contentment will depend on those choices we make.
My daughter was pretty impressed by the squirrel :)
I think that even then, we are in it somewhere. The way we each see the world is unique, how unique varies.
It becomes a rut and sometimes I wonder if it creates somewhat of a self-fulfilling prophecy, where change is made harder as trying seems futile in the mind.
As will our world.
I agree. The corruption and vilence we have experienced has made most believe that 1. everybody is corrupt and 2. you face mortal consequences if you try to do the right thing. That has led to a lot of inaction and despair. Most people has waived their will to contribute to making the needed changes. You can have a crappy mayor in a town and even if most people oppose or criticize that politician try organizing a massive protest to make him/her resign.
At the personal level, there might be more room for individual success amid so much institutionally-induced failure but there is certainly a lot of self-sabotage.
I fear that the entire world is heading into this abyss of depression and despair, yet are too preoccupied with shiny things to notice it yet. Avoidance is self-sabotage.
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