Doing more than just one thing, and showing it to the world.
Dawn Notes no.74
This morning's sky.
I have returned from an unannounced break. I slept a lot and feel quite rejuvenated, and had a great time with my girlfriend and her family. I consciously noted that I won't worry about posting the blog on those days, since as you saw or can see, I wasn't really writing anything anymore. Most of my posts turned into just two sentences WITHOUT A PICTURE. Disgraceful.
Well anyways, here I am. I still have all university responsibilities, so there is not a lot of free time, but today at work (also during the little break) I had some thoughts about hobbies/things people get passionate about. The thought goes as follows:
There is a remarkably potent emphasis in culture and media towards the idea of a person having THE thing they do. This idea then, is romanticized to an extreme extent.
So, I think it presents a wrong assumption about people and what they do. Having known myself and a good few other people (I know, very reliable basis for argument), I believe I could say that most people are interested in more than one thing in life, even if they don't exactly know it yet. Or at the very least there is a lot more people like that than the internet presents. The reason for that might be the fact that people who have many things they do for fun or out of passion, don't have the time to go online and scream about it. Not that screaming about something you are proud of is bad, of course.
This reminds me of the message I received from my brother this morning, where he announced that apparently Geese (great band, latest album of theirs is an absolute bang of a record) were hiring a fraudulent company to spread "fake hype" on social media. At first I was a bit confused, since that seemed a bit out of pocket for the band or at least the perception I had of them, so I asked my brother where did he find this news. Turns out it was from a reddit comment or post, which I am assuming was being posted in reaction to an article on wired, where the title proclaimed "The Fanfare Around the Band Geese Actually Was a Psyop". I couldn't read the article, since I am not subscribed to wired, but having read the title I was feeling a little iffy about the band for a moment, since that did seem weird with the phrasing of it all. Turns out that the article basically just describes Geese using a third party marketing company to spread some videos around TikTok, which is industry standard. The article I linked in the previous sentence is a great read if you are even mildly interested in this. To tie this in with the what I was talking about before, is it so bad that a group of people want their music to be heard? Why is trying and caring about your things so frowned upon?
Conclusion?