Threads and needles
More needles are always better or more threads?
Threads are annoying little things. Thin, wiry, and difficult to control. Inserting threads into the needle is one of the hardest tasks that I have ever done, and still is. My mother used to tell me to do it, not out of some life lesson, but she herself couldn’t do it.
I seek metaphor everywhere, as is my want. It’s my little exercise to engage in as I make sense of reality that eludes my understanding. I often wonder the way our brains got wired shielded us from the harshness of reality and everything that we see is an emotional and adrenaline reflection of what we see.
There are beautiful theories, Hoffman’s hypothesis of how we perceive our own realities and how it helps us survive and make sense of the world. Sometimes I feel that this altered way of perception takes up all of the mindspace. That we are so disconnected from reality, caught up in the creations of man, the business of survival for it is no longer an act, the engines of economy for survival is already taken care of.
As if the fine lines of survival have been surpassed over and the best way to keep our minds occupied is to figure out, refine our perceptions even more, proceed in directions that no one has ever ventured, push frontiers where invisible barriers once existed.
It is a testament to human ingenuity that we have come so far. A tribute to our intelligence that we can bank on the works of people who provided much good to the world and put to use instruments whose workings we don’t fully understand. To live on abstract systems and entities that ground us towards survival?
The threads of survival have finally be inserted through the needles of human ingenuity. The more number of needles we have, the firmer our grasp on life itself, the more useful our command over nature itself. Is more threads the answer or is more needles the objective we should seek?
But is it possible to expand the very scope of our perception? To include inputs from sources that we cannot yet see? To broaden our visions, heighten our senses, prick our eardrums for sounds we could not perceive. How do you become better? By increasing the threads of perception of by putting in needles of survival?
