awe is the beginning of philosophy. that is why if toddlers were reasonable enough, they could have been the greatest philosophers in the 3rd planet called earth. why? because they are always amazed of the things around them. how many people are amazed when it rains? all of the students maybe coz classes are postponed. but who would give a damn in reflecting how wonderful is the rain. tiny droplets one-by-one drop to the earth in a synchronize movement.. that out from the atmosphere water could be made. from these, one could doubt why the does not the rain come down in a big splash instead of tiny droplets? why does it taste like the tap water.. not coke?
as men grow old, awe is brainwashed from their minds. why? because one is afraid to look into the mysteries of life itself.
one says that awe is just for kids.
one says that awe is just for kids.
now, think again. awe will lead one to authentic living.
1 comment:
Reminds me of something I read in Sophies World a while back-- take a father feeding his one-year old in a high chair. All of the sudden, the father starts to inflate and float up to the ceiling. The one year old looks at this, and thinks, it's odd, but then again, daddy does lots of odd things. He spends a lot of time looking a big sheets of paper with hardly any pictures. He talks into a plastic thingy he holds to his face. He wears a funny thing of cloth around his neck that droops down to his stomach before he goes to work. Then the mother walks in, and starts screaming because she knows the father blowing up and floating to the ceiling isn't normal.
Keeping constant wonder just means you have to question what's normal a bit more often. Just my 2 cents.
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