The Observer
Enhance our senses together. I want you to think. Use your mind. It's beautiful. I can write about anything, and we can debate, we can talk, we can enjoy a community of thinkers. If you're sick of the monotony of life, the brainless people who crowd it with their lack of purpose and personal philosophies, join my goal to simply observe, to think, to live.
Posts tagged self improvement
Dearest Reader
Is it easier to think or to be thoughtless? I’ve had discussions with peers on the subject, and it is quite a difficult decision. There are those who seem to be thoughtless, moving about their lives automatically with only the next destination in mind: those people that don’t “stop to smell the roses.” It seems an easy life to be apathetic and some may even go so far as to claim that thoughtlessness is bliss. Without deep thought, there are no problems for one to dwell on. Without contemplation, there are no puzzles of life to work out; one is not forced to weave through the maze of ones mind in order to discover his true feelings. I have some advice for the many people who are haunted with your thoughts that you may find helpful. Firstly, think somewhere peaceful. Think somewhere, preferably surrounded by nature, where your mind isn’t plagued with the voices of others. Enjoy solitude and fresh air as you think your way through life’s problems. It makes a difference. Secondly, there is a way to remove yourself from a problem or particularly disturbing thought in order to evaluate it without being affected. Consider it stepping back and analyzing rather than being removed from the problem in an apathetic way. Think of yourself as uninvolved for a bit, as if you are simply, as I claim to be, an observer. This, I find, is one of the most affective methods to think one’s philosophy without being affected by the obstruction of difficult feelings that come with it. I might warn you, when pursuing this mindset, there is some danger in getting lost within it, unable to return to your former mode of emotion induced human thought. When detaching yourself from the problems of the world and of your own life, you feel powerful. Perhaps it is the simple difference you associate in yourself compared to other human beings. Be careful to come back to the world, and remember, you too are human.
Sincerely,
The Observer
Dear Reader
Greetings, from the UK. I can’t wait to share my adventures in this beautifully historic country. I’m keeping a journal, but haven’t been able to post it due to lack of internet. Everywhere I go, it costs money. I will be posting it upon arriving back in the states. Happy New Year! New Years is a time of resolutions, but let’s try and keep them for once. New Years is the perfect time to move toward self improvement. How can you better yourself? Be careful, in this pursuit, not to fall into self loathing. Bettering yourself does not have to be overcritical.
The Observer
Dear Reader,
Today, I present a challenge to you that is also very personal to me, for it is my own challenge to myself, and one that I admit to you, I struggle with. I challenge you to pursue your passions. It sounds simple enough, as most people wish to do the things they like and immerse themselves in those things that prompt special feelings of longing or contentedness. Writing and thinking are two of my most developed passions. It comes easier to chase your dreams when your dreams already surround you. As a child, I spent many a night reading stacks of books or simply staring at the ceiling, thinking about previous conversations or my own thoughts on everyday issues.
However, it is much more difficult to chase those passions that don’t come natural to you. I love art of all kinds because I love the idea of expressing the world around me. I love the abstraction of ordinary objects to create something with meaning behind it, as if a statement of sorts. I wish to be an artist of all kinds. A writer, a painter, a musician. However, being a musician or a visual artist takes time and practice. These things don’t come natural to me. It leaves me discouraged, for when attempting to create something beautiful, it is resolved as something ugly or too simple to be spectacular. I grow weary with practice, for I think of myself, when will the day come when I can stand out against others, spectacular and unordinary?
I visited the art museum of Chicago yesterday and was in awe of the beauty in many of the paintings I saw, the impressionist’s attentiveness to light and the way he blends the colors of nature and man into one being. If only I could create beauty in a tender mix of nature’s sublime with the mind of a man.
The devastating failure of these things that I wish for myself brings a challenge to the self esteem of man. Repeated failure is daunting; it’s discouraging and wrong. It leaves no hope that perhaps one of these times, whilst sitting alone in deep contemplation, one’s mind will be suddenly enlightened with the knowledge and talent to produce something spectacular. Practice makes a perfect, weary man. One I intend to be. Accept this challenge with me, and escape the thought of, “I could never do that.” Remember, those impressionists, those artists who captured beauty with swift movements of their brushes, were human, as I am, as you are.
The Observer
