Archive for the ‘Emotive’ Category
Infinite Immobility
While I walk in Holland, sometimes I have a look inside its buildings, through the large windows, kind to the precious and rare northern light. Normally it is just a quick glance, but I do not know for how long I stared into this room. Perhaps not more than usual, but I am not sure of that.
The workshop, or study, did not seem untended, I could not see the signs of the time, such as dust or some spiderwebs, even though a nylon bag protected something. In the beginning it was not difficult to imagine the room full of people, maybe students. Still, watching this picture again and again, I have the strong feeling that nothing must have hapenned before the instant in which I took the picture, as nothing would happen anymore.
It is an image that I like not for the decisive moment, but for the infinite immobility.
Winter at the Seaside
Without snow, with still the summer colors and the singing waves as background, the winter at the seaside is melancholic and sweat.
And yet some empty chairs catch me, and two street lamps. A small Santa Claus is behind a window of a closed bar. It is weird, I should enjoy this emptiness which finally gives me the infinity, but it is Christmas and I miss humanity, at winter seaside.
Cosmic Loneliness
I do not feel alone at all, specially in this moment, but I read an interesting post of a friend, inspired by a recent discovery of Kepler satellite. Julia wrote also about the Drake equation, a way to estimate how many alien civilizations could be in the universe.
Cosmic loneliness is a feeling that everybody has. It would be nice to discover an alien civilization to communicate with, it could be a chance to ask some questions that God answers only to someone. I think it could be at least nice to know that some answers do not exist: it would be maybe a cold comfort, but a consolation anyhow.
