Short Thoughts After Walk
I was walking upon the ponds when I think of this. There are few ducks swimming in the pond, and the rain dropped slowly on the pond, creating ripples like there are flowers growing and disappearing. Then I noticed I want to remember this moment. But why? Just after this moment, I realized that this moment is a moment that is not significant enough. If I find a stranger and describe this moment to him, chances are high he will not consider it as meaningful as I do.
How can we consider something as meaningful or significant? This question always puzzled me. It seems like people always have the desire to interpret the world and make it to things they can understand, and the most common way is by comparing. My mother believes social sciences are more important than humanity. People on the social media believes pandas and tigers are more important than ducks and dogs. We are living in a world of comparing. People are tirelessly finding universal and logical reasons to show something is more important than something. Thinking about this, I saw tall trees behind me. In front of me, there is a grave, and colorful rocks on it. The epitaph says it is the grave for someone being a friend, a son and a brother. It also says he loves mountains. It made respect it, and I was moved by it. I also know this is something that everyone (or at least many people) will be moved----it is something romantic to sleep beside the mountains for who loves it and there is a sense of death in nature. But I also noticed that there are thousands or millions of creatures die and born in the nature with only a few been seen and remembered. Does it mean they are insignificant? For me, meaning itself is a creation. Our memories enable us to believe something is important. Sometime, it is a heavy rain, or a sailboat, or it can be a yearbook or a piece of time. In a person’s life, there will always be a few moments that he remembered forever. So meaning might just be the creation people made to persuade themselves for rememberance.