Devil In The Details

Aviral, no matter where you are in life, never forget the details.

It’s easy to look at something, considering we spend 66% of each day doing just that. And when you have to take in such extensive amounts of data, you simply tend to overlook most of it.

As is the case with most things in life, we focus on what matters, tuning out the rest. Ain’t nobody got time for all the noise, we’re here for but a moment before time blips us out, a speckle of cosmic dust, onto the next leg of an eternal journey.

Does that not make it all the more important to do more than look? To observe. The days will pass if you let them, choose the now, separate your self from yourself. Take the time and observe your days, let your body carry on, it remembers the routines - it was strange for me to realize how little attention is actually needed to get through the day. Work, conversations, commutes, all dissolve as you take a step back to observe.

Remember when you started learning to drive? There were a hundred things to take note of, constantly check and recalibrate. The right gear for the right speed, rear view mirrors and their closer than expected objects, the indicators, the clutch, the turns. But given enough time, autopilot takes over, you now talk to others in the car, hum along the radio, smoke a cigg, all while barely noticing that your body has carefully calibrated to operate a carefully calibrated machine.

And such is the rest of life, most tasks can/should/must be automated. Free up the mental bandwidth that’s been hogged up by a menial culture. Consume and (definitely) create art, observe the details, exist in the now, exist in the here. What was and what could be are mere facts and possibilities respectively. One won’t change, the other will no matter what.

To look is to exist, to observe is to live.