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I find a lot of meaning in play, and because of this I’ve been fascinated by what play is and it means to me. So when I recently took a day wandering around the nearby forest I couldn’t help but wonder and re-explore my thoughts on these topics.

Fleetingness of life

To me life is incredibly fleeting and everchanging, nothing ever is the same as it was before. What we call a tree one day becomes a house becomes a ruin becomes a nest and… Our imagination/subconscious might be one of the most fleeting of all, the moment I try to grasp it, it escapes like a fleeing flock of birds. When a conscious thought appears it is only a smidge of what’s actually flying around in my head. And, when I try to hold it tight, it inevitably finds it way to slip out of my hand…

During another algorithmically cultivated stroll around the internet I came across a yt video by Pagemelt that’s about algorithms and what they do to us as humans. And towards the end Pagemelt says something I feel like I profoundly relate to. It is that when i reach for something to scroll (yt, instagram, etc) that I do this most likely because I’m feeling lonely. Not the kind of lonely where i have no-one to talk to, but the one where I’d just love to be in a space with people around living their life, doing things, whatever that may be. I wonder what kind of spaces I have in my life that are like that, and if there are new shared spaces I can discover or create myself…