Thursday 20 October 2016

in parallel worlds [ other imperfections ]

Sometimes I feel like living in some kind of parallel worlds, just as in tv series The Twilight Zone fulfilling my younger days back in the 90’s, where people inhabit with ‘zombies’ and everything gets mixed in a strange relationship between generations and descendants.
It’s really funny to observe how we stumble upon several kinds of species, several environments on a daily basis and how the human being’s genesis has been degrading in the last millennium.
Sensibility is extinguishing, as so the empathy and love for others or even for ourselves. Most people don’t communicate, don’t interact with the purpose of getting to know better his resembling, do not get affected by other’s suffering. They almost never stop to look around, understanding that every action has an impact on themselves and not just on the most disadvantaged.

At work we no longer deal with people but rather with temperaments, closed faces or pointed fingers, and we seem to live in a giant vanities’ fair where a minority of gentle ones becomes rare, almost swallowed by the ones who see them as far-fetched.

At home we also get affected with more and more thunderstorms trying to keep the ship ashore when each one rows in different directions to get credit for taken actions or just by accusing others of their own frustrations and incompetence’s. Sons and daughters seem to disrespect their parents as if they were just some pawns on some computer game and even between them there’s a lack of proximity or affection. It’s obvious, for me anyway, that each one of us is responsible for own choices, chosen paths, spoken words, practiced thoughts, daily attitudes…

But if in one hand nothing makes us explain our actions or decisions made, on the other hand we cannot alienate from those actions, as it has influence on days to come and impact on those directly or indirectly influenced by everything we say, do or share.
Social networks have been one of major accountable for, even if indirectly as we created them, the all social and personal dissociation who attracts millions of people just interested in their belly buttons, in their fantasized worlds, in the name of some economical/religious power or simply narcissism. And so each day I less identify myself with what is imposed by the society as a rule, fatality or greater good. And I try to minimize those adverse impacts for the benefit of a more lonely life but also more dignified and comforting one in the fellowship of the ones I choose and get chosen by due to daily solidarities and affections.

by Nádia Simão

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