I know it might sound rather sad to some people, but I do love going in search for inspiration. Sometimes I think that people get too comfortable with what they are doing in life or they just do not push themselves as much as they could do. I try to go out as much as possible to experience London because I always get worried that I am one of these people that lives in such an amazing city yet does not really know what is going on. Every time I go out and experience the city, going out even being a trip to the park for an hour or two, I always find that it pushes me to try and do more. I look around and see what people have, what they are doing in life (or sometimes what they aren’t doing in life when it comes to the man that killed a pigeon next to me in the park the other day) I see that I could have that, it could be in my grasp if I just tried more, this is what gets me through the day. Yesterday I got an invite to the London Pavilion of Art and Design. I had been thinking about going and thought to myself “should I really go!?” In the end I thought “sod it, I am going” and I am glad that I visited. The LPAD was to be honest, rather boring. I love art but walking around a massive tent with people that have far too much money, splashing it around on works that I could not even classify as art, turned me off. I love the whole idea of it but when you see that some artists have pained a canvas pure red and then slashed it three times... it is effortless, meaningless and plain boring. Simple art is fine, modern art is fine also but it needs to have effort, emotion and meaning behind it. There were some lovely works of art there too, some stunning sofas, furniture and paintings that must have taken months to complete. Whilst I was glad that I had made the decision to go down to see the exhibition, it really was not “rocking my world” so I decided to spend the rest of my day in Green Park and what a perfect ending to the day it was. It was sunny, warm, happy and there were so many people around. What amused me was that as soon as I sat down, this squirrel ran up to me and froze. The expression on its face was amazing. It was as if it was saying “Hello!” with so much excitement. The squirrel was so close that I could have reached out and touched it, I am sure it would have let me too! I decided to throw it a grape and it stood up and caught it! (I mean come on that is just so impressive!) Anyway mr squirrel decided to sit next to me eating a grape and I decided to relax in the sun. Everything was perfect until I noticed a tramp with what I thought was a puppet of a bird on a string. He was very intriguing because he managed to get hundreds of pigeons over to him and was feeding them. I was watching him play with his puppet until I noticed that it was a real bird that he had caught on a string around its neck. He was messing around with it until the bird must have been exhausted and just gave up. I thought it had died and he attached it to his trolley and continued feeding the birds. This poor little pigeon started to move again and as it did he grabbed hold of the string and killed it. After this he started to play with it under his arm and I just kept on thinking “how fucked up are people in this world?” I had to move because the sight was rather disturbing. I left my squirrel and then sat in another part of the park. I know it is rather harsh to say this but the guy gave me a little bit of inspiration in his own way (okay it sounds wrong if I just stop there) it makes me so thankful that I am not where he is, I am nothing like that guy. I would never think about killing an animal, no matter how gross they are. I chose to sit in the park to enjoy my day but he has no choice. I can wash, I have more options in life. Whilst I would not wish that life on anyone it really did make me thankful for what I have and made me want to push harder for the things I want to achieve in life. Lets just hope he does not kill anymore birds!
signing out, Thatmfeeling
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