Living spaces

Smaller living places  foster bonds

I have often thought why people living in very small houses tend to be more closely bonded together than those staying in sprawling  mansions .Obviously the theory  that living in penury is a causative factor for solidarity among people and the smallness of the living space brings them together in fighting their common enemy-poverty. This is apparently a facile explanation for the bond that exists amongst people living together in tiny houses . What occurs to me is that more often it is the physical space in which they live together that builds the emotional relationship. We have often seen that in case of illness of the near and dear ones the poor people rally around their kin with surprising amount of material and moral support. You will not find this in the stinkingly rich families.

One explanation for this could be that human bonds are built stronger when people are ,most of the time , within seeing distance of one another. If in a one-room kitchen dwelling unit a family of five or six members  are staying together they live in close proximity to one another most of the time ,within seeing and hearing distance of one another. This also causes some friction some times but as one would  observe in the Indian villages the fights do not last long and the warring parties come together at the earliest.

Being an idea

 

Sometimes we wonder if we are really transient creatures ,passing birds of somebody’s fancy.Assuming that till we are conceived in the mother’s womb we have never existed we come into being as a biological accident (which means that the soul has not pre-existed).The accident can possibly be looked at as a chance combination of chemical circumstances which may or may not have happened .Perhaps there is some design behind this and if so we are somebody’s idea and are born as such. Having come to exist we live our existence till we cease to exist.When we cease to exist ,does that mean that we really cease to exist as an idea ? The moment an idea is born in time or space it never dies because it keeps floating in the continuum .It is like the debris that exists in space .Thus we may physically cease to exist but as an idea we continue to exist for all time to come.Looked at this way all beings including humans are immortal because they began as ideas and once they begin they do not come to a close. Their existence in the space-time continuum is assured the moment they are physically born.

Existence

Here a talking man is sleeping,
His arms akimbo, feet in the air.
Then were wild gesticulations,
Sweat on brow, fire in the eyes
Now vacant and unconnected.
He no longer exists in space
But he had happened in time
Whatever begins shall remain.

Aristotle’s concept of an idea is somewhat similar in the context of art and aesthetics . It was believed by him that Reality is an imitation of the Idea and art imitating Reality is truth twice removed. Thus we come back to our thesis that once a being is born it becomes an idea which remains for all time to come in the space-time continuum.

My mission is hers too

Here I want to have a word with the little bird
Who makes a racket in my garden in shrill tones,
Persistently, distracting me from my mission
Of substantively changing the world, that is,
If I can get in edgeways in the conversation.
Failing language I try highly feeling poetry
Incorporating a lot of sting and biting irony
Who knows I may eventually silence her that way
The trouble is she too wants to change the world.