Words for July 28, 2009
I don’t know where all of this is coming from, but suddenly there are a million things to write about. Two new words for today. I don’t think this will become a long series or anything, but they just keep popping up. These two tie into some of yesterday’s words, namely rat race, and value.
Creation
Too few people (at least in Western culture) create things anymore. I know for me, I always think of things to create and then get bogged down and run out of time. I’ve had four days of vacation the past two weeks and meant to make a lot things and even prepared to create, but then in the end ran out of time.
For me its a combination of things I have to do and distractions. For now at least, I have to do what I have to do, but I can cut down on distractions. One thing I have been trying to do lately is to hibernate the computer whenever I’m not using it. I waste way too much time on the Internet. It has helped somewhat (and it’s hopefully saving me a little on electricity too), but I still need to find more ways to cut out these distractions so I can get back to creating.
Another aspect of creation that bother’s me is how much we as a society (and myself) are dependent on things created by exploited workers of big corporations. So much creation has been outsourced that it doesn’t seem healthy. Maybe it’s a silly view, but it seems like one day we’re going to find out that we don’t really make anything and are just running an imaginary economy of things made by other people.
Independence
Achieving freedom from the things in the universe that are holding me back. The more value I can create myself, the less dependent I will be on other entities. For example, if I grow my own tomatoes, I don’t have to go to the grocery store and buy them and I can dictate the kind and quality, the chemicals or lack of chemicals that help them grow or keep them from being killed by bugs, and so on.
I’ll continue to elaborate on these more as my thoughts solidify.