Quarantine Journals - Day 2
So I am back in Canada but have to sustain self-quarantine in a hotel for 14 days. That being said, what a great day to start a daily journal. I signed up to Isolation Journals where everyday it sends out a journal prompt. I decided to give it a try and I am writing these not in any order that was sent to me but based on random.
Prompt: The rules of Automatic Writing are as simple as they come: Just let the words pour from your pen, without restraint, without a goal, without self-editing (oh, how we self-edit!). Abandon any concern for punctuation, logic, structure. Just set a timer—we suggest ten minutes—and let it fly.
This is far more difficult than I thought. Not having a specific topic discuss is like wandering in the streets aimlessly - which to be honest, not something that I mind all that much. However, I just thought of something I can discuss. I started to watch Rick and Morty, and to be honest the first time I tried it, I didn’t understand what was happening after watching the first episode. It took me a while to get back into it and I think at that time I was listening to a few podcast that was talking about space. (They were podcasts that talk about diverse topics but somehow all within 2 weeks they all decided to release a space special) So I begin to think more about space.
My confession is, I am NOT a big fan a science fiction, therefore at first I couldn’t understand what is the big deal. But then I decided to put Rick and Morty as a background white noise while I draw - yes that is something that I love doing. It was great and after 3 seasons, I become more and more interested the idea of inter-dimensions and space in time. I think it is also a great escape for me for all the news around us.
The concept of space is fascinating because it has very to do with our day to day reality but it is still a reality. I still remember I heard from one of these well timed podcasts that the stars we look up at night could already be dead thousands of years ago (because the light years it is away), we are literally staring at the past. It is one of those realities that hits you hard and make you think about how as a human we live in such as short time compare to everything around us. And no, I am not having an existential crisis, but merely admiring the fact that we should use this as a mean to put our problems into perspective. In some ways I think it similar to meditation, when I went on meditation workshop the monk told us to push past the physical pain we might be feeling (as our legs are asleep). Learning more about space is helping me shifting my perspective and helping level out some of the anxiety I might be feeling toward some problems.