Tuesday, January 2, 2007

Take the cherry and sponge

So a new year has started, complete with streets filled with fireworks garbage, soaked in rain....

A new year, a new blog.

I've been blogging for over a year now, but this is the virgin voyage for this blog space.
Alongside new and (hopefully) exiting adventures, I'll be posting some of my old blogs on here as well...just for the whole picture, and also because...well..I have my reasons ;)


Here's a topic I talk about extensively with some of my friends, and that I think is majorly important...and in keeping with the fresh new year we've entered, hence this blog:


People should let go more...Open their eyes to the world that surrounds them...Forgetting everything else and just sucking up the matereal, and impressions you get from everyday life.

You need periods of sucking up every single impression, every minute detail every weirdness or normalness of every day life. That's the only way to see how things really are, peel of the layers off the cave so to speak, and show the true colours and nature of people and the stuff that surrounds you.

Have you ever had that experience where you look at someone who's face you've known for years (like your parents or a famous actor), and suddenly you see it in another light. And it seems like you see new features to this face that you never saw before....suddenly you see how the nose is more crooked than you thought and the mouth is shaped slightly differently. I have moments like that...as if I can peel back the glossy layer on somebody's face and look at it differently, then put the layer back and take it off again...a kaleidoscope of small details all in one person's face...

...same goes for everyday life...

Like Warhol; he made art out of soupcans, cuz that was his everyday life...and he made them beautiful and ugly and everything else...but they still were soupcans...still they embodied much more.
He showed what lies underneath the standarized packaging....he opened up the layers and showed us a peek under them.

How can you appreciate things if you don't see them for what they really are? Aren't you then just seeing the glossy outside skin? Seeing the shadows instead of the colours, shapes and flavours that everything really has?

As people get older their believe in dreams and fantasy dies. They think they have to be mature and strict and that those things aren't necessary to live a mature, serious life. But they forget that it's those fantasies, that way of looking at things and the world, that openness...that brings forward new and exiting stuff. It's that way of seeing the world which creates our own, gives shape to new items and stories and movies and plays. It's inspirational.

Inspirtation lies in the little things in life, in people, in events, in objects....because they tell huge stories...beautiful stories...

All it takes is to sit back and take it all in, nothing more....
...so sit back....
and open your mind...


Luv

-Galilea-

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