i pulled out my phone and snapped an image...but i don't think this picture truly captures the beauty of what i saw. i need to carry nick around in my back pocket so he can take all my pictures for me.
as i crouched over the plant i had two thoughts/impressions:
1) how many people think i look silly hunched over on the sidewalk, staring at this random plant...
2) how many other people actually do things like this?
the second got me to thinking a little bit.
i've never seen anyone doing something similar. and it made me sad for all the other people passing by...some rushing somewhere, others just walking along. but...none of them stopping. none of them looking. no one taking the time to admire all the beauty around them.
maybe this is all because 3 minutes earlier i had seen an advertisement for employ with the byu ground crew that said something to the effect of "come help us beautify our campus..." but how many people actually take note of the wonderful things that are being done around them? and not just on the plane of landscape architecture... how many of the natural beauties that surround us each and every day are people missing out on because they are so pressed, so worried, so busy and stressed out with school, work, home matters--and all the crap that modern life shoves down our proverbial throats. how many people stop to listen to the wind blowing through the trees? probably not many...it's too much effort to take out the earbuds and pause the ipod.
as much as i love technology and am an advocate of using it and having it help us in our everyday... i often feel it saps humanity of so many of the characteristics that make us just that--human. it's leeching away from so many the ability to appreciate the inherent beauty of one's surroundings. it seems to rape so many of the charitable and virtuous qualities...leaving only the questions "what's in this for me? how will i be benefited?" leaving only the search for a quicker fix and more convenient way of reaching the end goal. what of the journey which ought make getting from point to point the reason for wandering?
granted, these are things that have always existed as part of human nature...but that doesn't make it any less sucky. and there seems to be an increase in such things... perhaps not. i can't say.
all i know is that the flowers do look nice these days.
2 comments:
I didn't know you had a blog! Coolness. Anyway, this strikes a chord... All the time I'll look at the sky or something and start laughing for no reason other than that it's pretty and makes me happy. Other people tend to look at me as though I'm insane when I do this... but what's wrong with enjoying the world outside of the 9-to-5 job and laptop? Hm, hm, hm... How are you guys doing, BTW? (And this is Kjerstin. I don't know if the comment thingy will tell you that or not...)
It has often been spoken among friends that everyone should have a camera man and a soundtrack man. One to take pictures so you don't have to and another to play perfectly appropriate music at appropriate times. I'd be happy to be your photog, but sadly, I've chosen another career path. Also, I don't think you'd be able to pay me enough... being jobless and all. How's that going, anyway?
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