Soon, the boats will be back in the water after their winter slumber and scenes such as this will be gone again. I like this time the stillness, the reflections in the water. Reflections are something that I have always loved and I think many people feel the same. I wrote about duality yesterday and perhaps that has something to do with it as there is the reality and the illusion and the harder the two are to discern, the more attraction we feel.
I think it is that razor blade boundary between reality and illusion where we are the most creative. The laws of the universe and the endlessness of imagination. This is where art lays, the riding of that edge to pull illusions from one side and bring them to life on the other the best one can with the tools one has.
Walking this path is a dangerous road though for it is easy to lose one's balance and fall to the side. Tumble into the illusion and one becomes lost in the impossible, fighting for what can never be. Step too heavily into reality and one soon believes that all that is there is all that can be and the impetus to stop looking further than what is already seen. Both positions means, nothing changes.
Humans are creative forces, we can take what we imagine and use what we have to create it. It doesn't always mimic the mind nor does it always go to plan but, with each creation, new tools are puled from the illusion and brought into existence. It means that we can keep expanding, keep growing, keep evolving.
One of the problems I see is that much like these boats, we are shelving our creative talents. We are taking them out of education, we are smothering them through what we consume, we are suppressing them by trying to fit in with the group, jumping on the bandwagon and becoming like everyone else.
Walking on the knife edge of creativity means that from time to time our feet will get cut and we will be judged. We will limp and we will learn, we will heal and our skin will thicken. In time, on that blade between reality and illusion, we will dance without fear of injury.
Taraz
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