The Weekly Mosaic - 4
Things I have consumed, Thoughts that are consuming me!
One Thought for the week:
Vincent Van Gogh on reality being less scary than our imagination:
“Fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm fearsome, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore. They leave that wisdom to those to whom it appeals. When the storm comes—when night falls—what’s worse: the danger or the fear of danger? Give me reality, the danger itself.”*
Seedling:
We and our bag:
When we are born, I think we are given a bag — empty with four compartments. One for each of the major aspect to live life. One for family, one for career, one for love, and one for spiritual connect.
Now as a child born into the earth , you will have nothing but the things your parents teach you. Half the things they know are them learning. So, what they learn and experience on their life is inculcated onto you and slowly all the compartments start filling with their weight. You are a first born child, you take the responsibilities, you have to be good.
You will become what the societal norms of their time showed them the best would be and that is what is added in your career compartment of that bag. As of love, it will mostly be your friends, family, and sibling love until you feel the first warmth of a human love who is not related to you but want to be. For some, it happens as early as first grade, for some it happens after they joined their first company, and for some it happens with their partner after they gave birth to their child. There is no telling where that love compartment will fill completely, but at the start it is mostly parents, siblings, and friends.
The spiritual connect is one that you might assume is with the religion your parents are born into, is yours too. That is what is taught. but I personally feel you will be filled with weights of what other people or surroundings are into. froom career, family, love, and spiritual connect.
Slowly you start to grow up and each of the compartment starts filling up. Similarly, you start to think about things and start to form an opinion. While forming those opinions you will see some, that a compartment was already full of others ideas, versions, opinions and you start taking them out. That is when you start the adolescence. So, you will find yourself conflicting with all aspects of compartments in that phase. You will allso have external opinions forming which you want to adapt. This is when I think is the most important part to choose or have the child choose wisely as to what to keep in that bag.
Half the things if filled right is enough to have that child doing well or bearable. Sometimes the weight in one compartment will be full, so you fit it in other aspects. That usually happens in the early adult phase, where you will start to see the difference in which of your opinions were good and which were bad.
These all come to a settling point once you are in your early 30’s I feel where you will have the bag with compartment with things you need and it may be only a little weight because you removed all that is bad for you and that is okay.
But I personally feel it is high time, we start evaluating our bag and keep it in regular check.
Movies/shows I have watched:
Adolescence (TV Show):
The directorial choice to keep it one take sequences and to showcase the effects of social media gurus and more and how normal children think that it is okay to do what is a serious crime without thinking they are wrong is very well shown.
The show not only talk about that but the internal injuries of the family because of such incidents, the current scenario in schools where doing such things were normal and actually how there is many sides to a story.
Loved particularly these three sequences:
The detectives som explaining what happens on the boys instagram post.
The whole third episode
The final scene of the episode where dad goes into his boy’s room and couldn’t help himself.
Please do watch it in one go and you will see how well crafted this series is….
Solo Leveling:
I missed being able to watch anime. Not because I forgot about it, but the main reason is there are 4-5 OG animes that I am saving to watch with my kids. Just like Hayao Miyazaki films, Pixar movies, and few. But my close friend insisted on me watching this, so I picked up and I must say, I felt nostalgic for the highs that animes give with their music, the dialogues, the build up and the elevations.
solo leveling is definitely a must watch if you love anime and I must be late to the party because you probably might have watched this. In case you haven’t, please do watch it. I won’t reveal any story of this anime, you can guess by the name that it is some sort of leveling up story from being the lowest rank something to the rank no one can imagine. And for me this was inspiring because I honestly feel I am stuck at the same place I was five years ago mentally, until recently where I felt I leveled up. Experience is building up and I feel confident I will be good no matter how bad the times may come. So, this was a good little watch and actually tonight releases the final episode of the second season. So, pumped for this.
Book that I finished in one sitting:
There are only two real people in fiction — the storyteller and the listener. The story proceeds based on the teller’s aims and the listener’s needs.
Now, in this book, Lee Child questions the origin of Hero, why hero is a hero and who really think other is a hero, what circumstances make you a hero and more.
This is a short essay, written by Lee Child for Times Literary Supplement but got me thinking what a hero is. I remember going to bookstore for the first time and seeing the name of the author as a guest along with his book stacked up. I felt wow, what a cool thing to be doing, that is when I started dreaming of being a writer myself. Maybe, that authors name below the stacked books of his is my hero. Who is your hero? To understand first read this essay on where hero comes from.
This note called me out:
I saw this note on my feed in substack and was just ashamed of myself because I was always reading self help books(In my defense , those were needed for me then, and now), but the more I read different genres of books, the more I am experiencing and seeing things differently.
I am trying to see good from everything I am encountering and from every conversations now more than I used to and it feels good. I know this makes me sound like I am talking/boasting about myself but I wanted to remind myself to keep doing it.
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