Places

"There are places and moments in which one is so completely alone that one sees the world entire." --
Jules Renard 

 Oh dear, it's been awhile, hasn't it?

Sorry I haven't been updating; there are certain places and environments I think that I'm more productive in than others. And at the moment, I'm not in a particularly good place for blogging.

However, I have been working out.

It's funny, how certain places can just have an effect on you; how you will suddenly find yourself craving to run, or to clean, or to write, or to play music. Or maybe a certain place just makes you want to lie on the couch and sleep.

I've always wondered how a place gets it's "feel".

When a house starts feeling like a home.

When any place, really, feels like home.

I think that's the real thrill in traveling. When you go to a new place, you immediately seek out the feeling it initially gives you. You wonder what you're capable of in this new place, what it will inspire and drive you to do. But the real rush of it all is not knowing if it will be a good feeling or not; the simple fact that we're unsure, yet we're confident we can make the best of it.

But what about the world? can't the world have a feeling? It's so big, it's so complex -- it seems almost incomprehensible to reduce our planet to a simple word to describe how it feels.

Maybe thinking of the whole world is like traveling...

You never know what it's going to feel like from day to day; sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad; and it inspires and drives different people to do different things.

The world is a whole web of environments and places that make people react differently. Home to one is not home to another; evil to one may be good to another, and vice versa.

So I think anything, really, regarding places and the general environment, comes down to this;

Subjectivity.

Your view of the environment is subjective to how you feel about it.

But places change, and our feelings towards them change, too. Sometimes your childhood home feels more like a cramped little box. Sometimes a new and inspiring place can feel lonely.

But the simple unknowns can still excite us; not knowing how we'll feel.

So next time you go somewhere, think about how it feels to you. Try to think about the world and the environments in it every day.

Maybe your opinions might change.

Maybe they won't.

But you will certainly gain a better understanding of what's in front of you.