Reflecting upon my Pandora's Box

Recently I had the opportunity to spend time with my nieces, especially with the little one who is about 7 years old, at present. Every time I spend time talking to her, I have a strong feeling that I'm learning things that are more advanced to my knowledge, somethings that I even fail to understand despite a grown up. Its not her little fantasy stories of the dolls that she plays with, its how much she articulates and builds information blocks so that she hopes that she could bridge the communication barrier between us, making me understand that her fantasies can makes sense to me. 

Sometimes it is very funny to listen to her speaking, but most of the times I reflect upon my own childhood memories of playing with my action figures that I used to store inside my shoe box, which my dad loves calling it as my 'Pandora's Box' every time I open it to play during holidays or on summer vacations. For quite a lot of years, I quench the thirst of my imaginations by playing with them. But that was then, later on, I ditched my Pandora's Box for video game consoles.

But right now, in between a confined software job and as a sci-fi movie fan, often I'd get caught within my imaginary worlds while questioning various possibilities of science and technology that makes sense in the real world, also in a hope that my imaginations can one day shape into original ideas that can contribute my few cents in building a better world.

I feel that I have (re)created a Pandora's Box, a place inside me, through which I'm trying to run away into my imaginations in a hope I can one day bridge that gap of 'insanity' and try to make sense to the real world, with ideas I could create from my imaginations, just like my little niece surprises me with her fantasies which leaves me with a realization of some sort, every single time I meet her.         

On the Web of Life

For quite a while I've been wanting to share this, my few cents, to the plethora of wisdom found in the internet. Of the millions of questions that sparks from our synapses since childhood, we often are interested in finding the answers to the ones that eventually get to define our adulthood that in turn, sadly, make us realize that there is no 'pot of gold' at the end of the burrows. Yet, I believe, we should never stop asking questions or finding answers about our existences  even if we think it doesn't make any sense, because, the day we stop becoming curious about life, will be the day life quits becoming curious upon us.

To cut right into my message, I've used to travel to my workplace by railways, so, everyday i'll get to be 'doped' by gasping at the morning glory of sunrise, while basking in the breeze watching the palette of green shrubs, bushes and trees, all along the way, peacefully seated near the window inside the speeding train. So, recently I've been kinda wondering, how does something so far away from me (the sunrise) and so unrelated to me (the tree) can offer motivation that allows me to feel a sense of solitude beyond my imaginations? How it is so connected to my life, though for a brief while in the day, yet, I don't get to physically relate it in my 'real' life, like I talk with and relate to my friends and family who, too, have offered such motivations in my life.

There are many such things in nature (like lakes, mountains, flowers, etc.) that invisibly have added so much meaning to our 'real' world living. It makes me wonder that if something standing apart and practically being 'lifeless', has the ability to offer us, such transcending levels of motivation, in our everyday lives, why can't we as 'living' entities, could make a difference in somebody's life, no matter how unrelated that someone might be to us, as we are all related as Humans being made/evolved from a common source. It is my logical implication, of how much connected we are, already, in making each others lives better by small and simple acts of random kindness.    

These tiny unnoticed stimulants of nature will be so unnoticed until they remain just like 'spots' in space and time, but as we travel along and make connections with these spots we won't make huge differences, but slowly and surely a design appears, a destiny emerges and in time, our life's meaning is manifested into a perfectly woven web of life.