01.februar.2009 - Forgetting how to live*

Today's society is all buildt around information.
The more information you can read, learn, understand, and remember; "the better you seems to be in the eyes of everyone else"
There is something about this information age that makes us all forget how to liveand at the same time you feel the desire to live even more.Deep inside there is this feeling of emptiness, loneliness, uncompleteness.We are all trying to do our very best to overcome this feeling by adding more hobbies, friends, work and creative outburst to our lifes.
We have all learnt that happiness cannot be bought, and it usally cannot be perfect as long as you have no one to share it with, also you learn that happiness is not always the money, or the status, but it might just exist in thosesmall moments... A smile, a feeling, someone's voice, the sun warming your face, the wind blowing a mild breeze over your entire body...
There is so much we forget how to do, or how to feel, while desperately hunting for new information, trying to learn even more than we already know...We forget each other, we forget our friends, our family, our hobbies and our lifes.When you have forgot to practice something you're good at for some timeyou soon realize that your skill with it has weakened, and you need to re-practice your skill in order to get that perfect skill set back up running...I think the same applies to our lifes in general. When you have'nt lived for a while, one soon realize that one has forgotten how to live...To life is all about creating and experiencing moments, small moments and sometimes longer moments of time...All these moments put together become what you and others define as your life.Only you can possibly know what moment that counts.Defining your life based on moments, may not be how you usally think of your life, maybe you just have a clear feeling of who you are, a crisp voice in your head saying something like "this is you, I know who I am, this is who I am"or maybe you're not aware of any of those two scenarioes...
Maybe to you, you are defined by pictures or sound flying past your inner eyesor maybe you are a combination of all the above mentioned definitions...Seems to me that I am defined as me by the voice in my head, the inner voice, and by my memories of every moment that i've treasured... Sometimes accompanied by pictures and sounds played infront of my inner eyes.There is also one more thing that defines me, hard to explain, but it could be defined as, the awareness of my body, the "containing space" that I am currently living inside of right now.Inside me there is something eagering to feel happiness and luck.Luck itself could be defines as "series of moments that we treasure" moments that means something to us, and that is valuable to how we continue to grow as a human being... the moments that define us...that drives us...Every now and then, I realize that those moments are pushed asaide by the very society that we live in, because of the pursuit of knowlegde and information.
...TO BE CONTINUED SOME DAY...