Perfection or Permanent
Practice doesn’t make one perfect. It makes the habit permanent. We become of our habits.
Reading & Writing
Reading and writing helps to expand our experiences & perspectives.
Walk in the city
To walk a city led by your senses rather than a destination is to awaken to the city and, possibly, to yourself. It’s an opportunity to expand your capacity for wonder, to discover and delight in things you might have missed had you been aiming to get somewhere. Alone in a crowd, you can take a break from who friends and family expect you to be. You can be yourself, or “off stage,” to borrow the sociologist Erving Goffman’s term. You have room to go at your own pace, to let your eye and mind wander, to stumble upon new ideas, even self realizations.
By Stephanie Rosenbloom
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Expanding Experiences
Have you ever wondered how to broaden your own experiences?
Our creativity is often tethered to our imagination which in turn depends on our past experiences.
By venturing into unfamiliar territories, interacting with people from different cultures who speak unfamiliar languages, delightfully shocking our taste buds by tasting the local cuisine, discovering new genres of music and their cultural contexts, walking through an unfamiliar city, observing different lifestyles and traditions, delving into novels and movies from diverse genres and geographies and much more of such activities which disrupt our usual patterns of thinking and interpreting situations, ultimately expands our perspective and hence bursting the bubble of our imagination.
Imagination
Stumbled upon this interesting comment on Reddit.
Can we truly envision things we’ve never personally encountered? Is our imagination simply a creative reorganization of our past experiences and memories?
Vacation
Does a vacation bring any change in me or will I be stuck forever in private trap?
101 Dalmatians effect
I remember there was an animated series named 101 Dalmatians in Cartoon Network which I personally didn’t get connected too much.
101 Dalmatians effect refers to the phenomenon when the animated and live version of the film named 101 Dalmatian was released during 80s and 90s in America. Fascinated by the cuteness and trendiness of owning the one, demand for the Dalmatian dogs surged to the peak. Breeding of this particular breed of dog got spiked, decreasing the numbers of other breeds. But soon after, the buzz of the movie went down, harsh reality of petting sensitive breed of dogs hit hard, more and more orphan animal shelters began to get filled with these helpless animals.
Recent popularity of the series, ‘Game of Thrones’ had the same effect on the breed Siberian Husky. It’s utter impractical to pet an animal native to the region with the temperature below zero degree, in the tropical countries like India. Yes, it does look cool when you take the poor animal for an evening walk, but definite hard on the natural ways the animal is supposed to live.
Imagine cruising down the pothole-ridden roads of India in a sleek supercar, its low ground clearance scraping against every bump. Or donning a full-sleeve formal ensemble, complete with an overcoat and tie, while battling the sweltering heat of southern India. And what of the humble ‘cutting chai’ and Vada Pav of Mumbai, once the domain of the working class, now gracing the tables of the well-to-do (Of course for the price which has no relevance to their original purpose.)
Private Traps
Aptly applies to all of us leaving to beautiful places on vacation in search of ‘finding ourselves’ and becoming ‘wanderers’. Can we really run away from what we are and become something new just by roaming around new places?