Seaside Photography and Musings Whilst Walking: January 22 2022
Seaside Photography and Philosophy Musings
It is amazing how one can be gifted with things people either take for granted or dream to have. I am so fortunate to be able to live close to the sea but also close to the fynbos area. Fynbos is one of the most bio-diverse species of plants in the flora kingdom. How lucky are we to live here. How lucky am I! Herewith are just some photographs on my walk I took alongside the beach. Scroll down to the bottom for my philosophy musings if you are into those.
Post Scriptum Musings of Some Sorts
I love the quote or idea from Heidegger that we are “thrown into the world”. We do not have a choice about where we are born, our skin color, and a myriad of other arbitrary things. I did not choose to be here at this time. Not to get political, but this makes so much of identity politics and general politics so non-sensical.
But I want to briefly talk about a topic I have talked too much. Bending down to appreciate the little things. Those things people look over because they are too busy. In the above pictures or photographs I showcased various photographs from angles and perspectives people rarely see. From these perspectives things look so different. Bending down to appreciate the flowers becomes a novel thing. It becomes for a lack of better term philosophical. Seeing the flower that people never look at becomes philosophical. Taking your time to look at things become philosophical.
This was just some brief and short thoughts. All the images were taken with my iPhone. The musings are somewhat attributed to the seaside flowers. Stay safe and active.
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Love that perspective! Love your place and lovely atmosphere dear ❤️ every photograph details are so awesome. Stunning work!
I am very lucky to live here. Sometimes I just need to breathe and appreciate anew my good fortune. Thank you for your visit. Stay safe.
Fantastic, what a beautiful place you live in man, and what's so great about it is that you appreciate and clearly see the beauty in the simple and banal, that many others may walk past without thinking at all. It reminds me about the story of the musician, a violinist I believe. He was to play a show in a city and the show was sold out for many months as he was an incredible talent. That morning, he set up busking in the street to see what peoples reactions would be and the vast majority hurried along the way rushing past, oblivious to one of the worlds best musicians plying his trade for free. It was the young children with their mothers that got their parents or minders to stop and listen to the gorgeous music. They could still appreciate things like this and were uninhibited by the surroundings or hustle and bustle.
There is so much around us and it is free for anybody to appreciate, you just need to stop and look, smell, touch, feel and truely be present. So many of us are racing to an ideal or a goal of some day having enough, some day having the big house, some day having the big job, some day having the time, always projecting forward. Others do the same thing, but looking backwards, again felling their heads with what ifs and buts and maybes, rather than just seeing what is happening right now. Something as simple as the sky and the movement of clouds holds so much beauty or the buds of a tree starting to grow and grow and eventually break through as a leaf.
This is an excellent way of looking at things and it goes to show that your existence could be oh so different than it is. You could have been born a prince or a pauper, black or white, tall or small, man or woman. If you break it all down though, we are ultimately the same, just born into different circumstances. We are lucky that we can ponder such things, with the level of luxury we have compared to some less fortunate in our own societies and other societies around the world. For some dusk to dawn is just survival and everything else is a bonus.
I definitely think that Mindfulness is hugely important and as a society at large, we are getting better at this. I must try to remember this the next time I am a bit stressed or overwhelmed, and remember to be mindful and maybe take 5 and go for a quick walk in nature to reset. Like you, I am lucky to live close to nature.
Exactly this right! To see the world not necessarily through the eyes of youth but to instill a youthful gaze at things. A little less philosophical, to simply appreciate things without the clout and clutter of our "mature" minds. Or, to basically see things/experience things as if it was the first time we experience them. I like this idea, and my mind wants to explore it more! Hence, the overcomplicating the simple things!
So wonderful this response of yours! I concur, I agree with everything you say. I just want to add also that I think our modern way of living promotes these ideals and basically sells us everything. (Not to be too political but let us throw it there: capitalism needs us to be ferocious consumers.) That is, the "free things" like appreciating a wildflower or the sky, seem foreign to most because they are so "conditioned" to think about things in a capitalist system. XYZ always costs something, never a free meal, etc. (This is just my reasoning of things going on around me, I can totally be wrong 🤣.)
This is so important, yes. It renders most "battles" (read: political-, cultural-, and identity-wars) nonsensical. Why can we not just accept our "circumstantial and contingent" differences with this mentality you described? In any case, you also understand the luck we have to ponder these things! I am not sure who said it, but it goes something like this: "You can only philosophize with a full stomach." It speaks volumes. And sometimes I wonder: Is life better with these philosophical reflections?
Again, how lucky are we to be mindful! Just like philosophy, I think, it requires a "full stomach".
Thank you for this awesome reply! Sorry for the equally voluminous response.