We blow so much energy into something that doesn’t even exist
A shadow balloon that extends to every corner of the earth
Breathe breathe breathe oooooouuuuuttttt
And when do we breathe in?
The morning light
The sound of wind blown leaves
Why would anyone fight to preserve out here
When they’ve all gone down the drain plug
Down down down
In there
So I fear for out here
While everyone is busy looking
In there
*on a whim, following a very chill lady that I wanted to know more about, I made my way to Instagram yesterday
And got stuck for about ten minutes flicking through reels – one after the other after the other video, I hardly waited for them to end, just flicking and watching as hundreds of strangers entered my world doing and saying different things
It really struck me – all these humans, all this energy, poured into their devices to spring out on mine. It is quite mind boggling what we do as a species these days on the internet. And that was just instagram. There is also tik tok and a plethora of other social media.
Millions of people dancing, selling, talking, running, cooking and anything else you can imagine – busy as hell in some alternative world that we can’t even see and doesn’t actually exist – except via the screens of our devices
It was something I hadn’t considered in depth before , or from this perspective
And now I’m really uncomfortable about it – because while everyone is busy, important things are happening, and I don’t see how these people have the time to think about any of it, let alone muster the energy to take action.
Will the natural world out here cease to be important, or relevant at all?
Well it is to me, and I think that’s why this morning I found the pandoras box of instagram so disturbing.
According to legend Pandora opened the box and then wished she hadn’t as all the awful things flew out – I’m a little bit the same now. Should have left it alone I think.
Anyway, had the thought so here it is, my own version of whispering into the ether.
Header photo of a big dam near a camping spot I went to with my youngest son a few years ago. We had the best week-end chilling out and pottering around in the kayak.
