I read the following post by an artist I follow on DeviantArt:
Polarists Meeting
Less than a month before our arctic expedition known as Fjällräven Polar!
Since I became a part of the Polarist Circle, my life has drastically changed.
In a very positive way.
I’ve met many wonderful people from Polar, who mostly are widely open
minded, outdoor, very passionate about life and active to pursue the
impossible things - that kind of society with very different mentality.
Their type of mentality allows them to get outside from the “box”.
(“box” concept- is referred to type of social mentality with narrowed
way of thinking. When those people see a person who is doing something
different and stays away outside from generalized/labelled concept “what
normally people should do”. Like: “if you do different things, we won’t
accept you” or simply afraid of something “different”, out of
mainstream lifestyle. )
Being around these Polar people has brought me to experience a
glimpse of lifestyle that I’ve always dreamt about. And I think I have
now more and more clear idea of what I want -or- who I am. I think I’m
in the phenomenal stage where I am slowly awaking from the state of
being “asleep” (not aware of my own self existence/what I really want)-
which was caused by our highly civilized society has lured me into
sleep state.
Every Polarist shared with me unique story about who they are- and
through what they had to go through to achieve that state. And some,
younger ones are still of the road of finding themselves and we are
helping, supporting them. Nobody was born amongst stars but had to take a
difficult staircase journey to the stars. I am still on that road.
That Polar expedition is a first “star” in my life that I am going to
face with. After a very long time… from the day when I woke up in the
solid white room, full of strange screens and my head terribly bleeding…
That yet upcoming journey became somewhat a reminder of sorts of how
important it is to pursue passions and creative things that I really
want to do, and to put aside unnecessary, “time wasting” things that our
social pressure has told us to do. My mind and body feel so much more
free when I know deep down I am putting my everything into something I
was meant to do, rather than something I was told to do by our society.
I’m in midst of working on our unique “Fjällräven Polar”
Experience Blog (fighting with my lazy ass)- where I hope to get it done
very soon where we, twenty participants, share our experience and
stories. It won’t be a typical one, all about sugarhappy events and “oh
look how cool things we do” - but breaking our own fears, anxieties and
barriers.
I hope we can do in that way that we could inspire other people! Stay tuned!
And I don’t know why, but this just really, really, REALLY stuck this huge cord with me. My spirit is literally humming with excitement. My inner SheWolf is nudging me, “Pay attention, Pup. Read and hear and FEEL and LISTEN.”
I can’t articulate it. I’m at a loss for words. I just know this is
important and I wanted to keep a record for me to return to and mull
over and puzzle over.
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