Modern day heroes?
Till today I didn’t really think people still believe in this type of stories. I was the sceptical one, myself. That was, until I realized it’s our perception that’s faded away, not them.
Have you ever watched a superhero movie and wandered what would be like if you had that strength? You must have, at least as a child, day-dreamed of moments like that. So what happened? What stops us from believing any more? I think it’s just us. We get blinded by every day life that we cease to see the essential.
I like these movies. It’s like a wake-up call, that tells me I’m missing the world surrounding, that I’m fading my senses in a routine which makes me cease living, and fades my conscious self into a self-sustained agonizing sleep. We all want to wake up but we believe we can’t. It’s a slap that makes me realize life is more that a self-centered fantasy, and we must learn again to see beyond what meets the eye.
We’re taught as children to be ambitious, to compete, to fight for what we want. So when we see a lovely miracle, we try to grasp it away from the world, afraid that somebody else will take ownership over it before us. Like a beautiful flower, that when we notice it, the inbreed instincts make us pick it up, instead of letting it live, to give joy to others as well. We choose to capture the beauty, sometimes to offer it as homage to get a special one’s attention, but by the simple capture, it’s ecstatic beauty fades away.
How many times, because we envied the freedom of birds, we enslaved them to the state of a live exposé, to humour the human ego, by stating ‘yes, man has conquer the wild’. Too bad…we’re left to an inferior state of void.
Wake up! Enjoy the world, don’t try to conquer or subdue. Watch, learn to see, don’t break its value if you cannot understand. And Learn. Yes, learn to live, to speak, to walk, to coexist with the unknown. Increase your reach by testing your own limits, again and again, against the unknown. Grow, not older, but wiser.
Make the difference! Be different! Be yourself!
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