BGM: Original Love - 朝日の当たる道
I went to a mountain in this city to enjoy "feeling" nature this morning. There, with Steve Reich's music, I started thinking about various things. I could see that great, splendid forests surrounded me literally (yes, it must be "3d" scenery) and astonished me for a while. TBH, a few mosquitos annoyed me so I should have bought something to avoid them (I can't see how to call that "something" in English... any spray for bugs), but except that I could refresh my mind at all.
You might have already known this... I always read books to kill boredom or enjoy free time (so, not for learning/gaining something by reading). But this time, although I had brought Fernando Pessoa's book "The Book of Disquiet" to read there, I couldn't read anything. Instead, I just tried to enjoy "reading" the greenery in front of me certainly... it was as cozy and divine as the atmosphere that some of Hemingway's short novels describe for me.
I'm trying to breathe the air with my lungs fully... and I accept how my mind can be truly "messed up" completely by various "digital" and "virtual" pieces/fragments of information on the internet. The more I try to let the things in my mind "synchronize" with the outer world, the more I feel they "drain" from me to somewhere, releasing those chaotic and annoying stresses. But it has been strange for me... certainly, nature doesn't "cheat" me, but it has also kept their attitude quiet enough not to annoy me with any "extra" stimulation.
Of course, I can't live in such a beautiful, splendid natural scene at all... After leaving that mountain, I had lunch and took a nap. And this afternoon I enjoyed reading an astute Japanese philosopher/critic, Kojin Karatani's book "Investigation One [柄谷行人『探究I』]". Referring to Wittgenstein's theory, he tries to think about our communications quite logically. Certainly, we might not have to think about how the real figure/state our communication (or simply our world) can have, but there must be a sort of people who can't stop thinking about various things as a machine or an AI... maybe I am also that kind of guy.
"Nature is a language, can't you read?" - The Smiths "Ask"
