I was doing some thinking earlier today on the nature of our lives as human beings. What if when we come out of our mothers' wombs, it's like a....perfect pot falling from a height. A fetus is pretty much perfect, pure, but when it enters this world, it changes to become something entirely different. It's shattered by it's environment, it's upbringing, it's circumstances until it finally becomes what it is.
What if a lot of the things in life are decided not by us, but by life, and we come into the world with a lot of things already laid out for us. Like a broken pottery - when it hits the ground, there's no way of telling what the broken pieces will look like, but it's still the same old pot, and the broken pieces are beautiful in it's own way.
What if our mission in life is to make sense of the fallen pieces. We're broken. We're so fucking far from perfect, but that in itself, is perfection, and we've just got to make sense of it. For example, when you look at clouds, you may see clouds, but you may also see a face, and it's up to us to see that. Ughh, i'm not sure whether I'm making sense. My head hurts like crazy.
I'm getting really frustrated with Illustrator, and Photoshop. Why can't we have one software doing both, seriously. Toggling between them is...terrible. I'm starting to realize that I may have too much on my plate.
i have too many thoughts on this. the first being what i tweeted back to you earlier: Kintsugi, the Japanese art of saving broken ceramics with gold this is something that is relevant as is the quote in Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist which you can see here coz it's kind of a chunk of text and I wouldn't wanna clog this up for you. Basically Norah brings up something from Judaism, which sort of deals with the same thing. Sort of, not exactly the same thing you're talking about...but close enough.
ReplyDeleteI kind of like the idea that maybe we're all broken pieces, and we've got to find the people who fit right with us. Not everyone will fit perfectly, some will come close, but there will only be a few people who fit perfectly with you.
On the topic of illustrator and photoshop, i agree that it's a pain in the ass to switch between the two, which is why it's useful to just decide which software to use, and work on that first. Or that portion of your project, at least. Illustrator is really growing on me.