This is an observation piece from a passionate life lived, loved
and really enjoyed along the journey so far.
Driving up to the burn, me and my friend Matthew go into the
thick of it about the fleeting nature of time and the importance of the moment.
Burning Man itself is a good reflection of life, from dust
to dust. The place comes together and falls apart in a space of a couple of
months, all said and done. The desert comes to life and then goes back to being
a desert for and after the time that burning man needs from the desert.
With that perspective in mind, the thesis we worked out was,
things being so fleeting and temporal, how does it impact our relationships and
ties that bind.
I had to leave my little child and wife behind to attend the
event and it had it’s share of heartburn and emotional upheaval to deal with, I
realized some of the emotions that Buddha must have felt when he undertook his
journey to enlightenment a long long time ago.
The net of the argument was that our relationships with
things material and immaterial should have a healthy distance between us and
the said things. Try not to be “consumed” by any such relationship. There is
the healthy distance and then there is unhealthy distance, both too close and
too far. Too close and you will be consumed, too far and you will be lost or
whatever you have a relationship with will be lost to you.
In my journey this has been a truism about any and everything
that I have touched and actively cognized once I reached a state of maturity
where I understood how the world works and more importantly how I worked and
what made me click as an individual and a human being.
Hope this little piece helps the reader in understanding the
notion of healthy distance.
Thank you for your time.
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