To stop, look and wonder

For a first time since sixteen years I'm out of the education cycle. With every intent of getting back to it, true, but right now I enjoy the guilty pleasure of watching the world around me from a whole new perspective: the perspective of someone who has time for everything and is in no hurry at all.

When walking around a city that has no university at noon, there are almost no people at all. I got used to crowds and time pressure, forgetting that it is possible to live without these. It brought some distant, half-forgotten memories of the times when I had no real worries and everything was so simple. I miss these times, but I know it's never gonna be the same. I'm not old by no means, barely an adult, but it's too late nevertheless. I'm not all that sad because of it, though. I know there are even more beautiful thing waiting for me, so let's rather look forward to those than dwell on the past.

A loose thought: people's actions are usually decentralised. Any single endeavour is usually led by a single person or just a few people, sure, but the combination of various initiatives is only loosely knitted by some vague sets of laws, funding, interests, agendas and so on. Yet still - it works. The food is being produced, people have job, the economy runs, the culture is developing, the science moves ever forward. These are simple and everyday matters, but they still amaze me. Our whole civilisation is an enormous, seemingly infinitely complicated machine with so many independent gears it's flabbergasting that it works at all, and in fact it works quite efficiently.

I intended to write on something else that was hinted last time; well, I'll get back to it probably. Unless I find a job that would occupy me 24/7, I'll have some time to practice some writing at the expense of potential readers' time and patience.