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Blog 4
Full Moon, Lunar Eclipse AND a Comet?!
Now those are some extraterrestrial events: a full moon, lunar eclipse and a comet?!!! Wow!
I love comets! Then again, I think satellites are cool. I love this new show on TV called, 'What On Earth' (on the Science ch.) ... they've curated tons of satellite photos of Earth, found the most interesting, weird, awesome or UN-explainable, and made a show about them ... how cool is that?! I've really found my inner-Nerdom!
What's so unique is seeing Earth, OUR HOME, from such a radically different perspective.
I believe that's a reason why MEDIA blossomed these past hundred years. First it was writing that helped us to understand our human condition. During and after the Romans, it was the Greeks who performed Comedy and Tragedy at the theater. Then of course, it took hundreds of years before the Renaissance brought us (what was then) new age artisans! Thereafter, Mozart was live, in Concert in Vienna!!
Inventions have now brought us picture, radio, TV, motion pictures ... and the big enchilada, the Computer, all products of the 20th Century, and so too, satellites. Satellites allow us to forecast the weather, get our TV programming, and communicate around the planet, person to person. Who knows what the Governments do with them either? The world is 'smaller' because of all these technological inventions and innovations. But besides their amazing applications, what are we really using all these things for???
The three events today, a full moon, eclipse and a comet, have got me thinking about that question ... What's it all for?
We can look in the mirror and see ourselves, but knowing our place, our purpose and reason for being in the world, is so much more elusive and difficult for us to find, if we try at all. Know Thyself ... that's the famous phrase, but how? There are countless 'rites of passages' that we, in our humanity, use as life's touchstones. But besides using the yearly passing of Earth around the Sun, to indicate our age, what else defines us?
Is it graduating High School, College, receiving credentials, getting married, having children, that gives our life its' purpose? What is it to actually Grow Up and become an adult? And why does that even matter? Is it in being responsible for ourselves that truly make us independent and mature?
What I find interesting and helpful from watching the 'What On Earth' show, is that we actually learn about ourselves, as we see how others have dealt with their life's circumstances.
It's just odd that we're using satellite photos to see evidence of our actions!
Remember hearing that phrase 'people-watching'? It's amazing how much 'people watching' we do!! Social Media now plays a big part of feeding that consumption habit (or is it a learning habit too?). It seems odd to say, but I imagine that some people may know MORE about other people, than themselves! And is that a problem? (we do know, on some level, that what we identify with, defines who we are!)
Personally (given what I've endured these past dozen plus years, living a solitary lifestyle, isolated because I can't get out of the apartment much, due to chronic pain), I've had to learn a lot about myself, faults, talents, warts and all ... because there's simply no hiding from yourself, when you're by yourself. That's why Meditation and Prayer, can be so positive and transcendent activities.
Maybe that's why we're all really busy with everything else, as distractions, so we don't want to deal with what's inside. I know I use distraction as a way to cope with physical pain. And it hurts to deal with the truth, emotional or otherwise. Still, being honest about what's going on, is the best way, perhaps the only positive way, to move forward, to grow, and to heal.
I think that's where the pendulum is within modern culture ...
Till Next Time
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