for real tho… for me this year it felt like I was being drawn back outside. I don’t really like outside and stuff, but I even bought stuff for, planned and then did my first ever multi day motorbike camping trip - and it was the best thing ever to just… not be connected to tech, but instead experience…life lmao. On the second day after sunset, sake bottle in hand, I looked up and saw a star, then the realization hit me that I can’t remember the last time I looked up at night and saw stars (live in Tokyo, so too much light pollution), and I just…started crying. Such basic shit man but I just forgot in the endless stream of data and news that algorithms bombard at us. Fuck man, I’ve been even reading books. I look forward to the weekend to start up an audiobook, do some chores and maybe chill in the hammock on my balcony.
EDIT: the fun part is turns out it wasnt a star, just venus lmao. did see some actual stars a bit further after dark tho, so counts.
Since then I’ve also found myself catching myself going “shut the fuck up this is just annoying noise” at YouTube more and being able to disconnect easier.In fairness to yourself, Venus has long been known, by many human societies and cultures, as something approximating ‘the morning star’.
Your experience of being confused, or perhaps awestruck by it is thus… exceedingly human.
Take it all in.
The beauty, the colors, what the wind and rain and sun feel like on your skin, the cries of the birds and cicadas.
…We are from this ‘outside’. It is where our father’s fathers and mother’s mothers all grew up. Yes, we invented cvilization to shelter us from its cruelties… but it is also very beautiful and therapeutic, in ways we still cannot simulate with our fancy tools and toys.
Here.
Someone who put it into a much more beautiful prose than I can:
