Ok, missed a blog. When you’re stuck in the back of beyond in Scotland, one bar of mobile reception is heaven in a handset, let alone finding wireless.
SO following a completely natural progression, I’m going to move from AC Grayling to Cosmopolitan magazine. Now stuck in a B&B in sunny (??) South Shields, I stumbled upon a fine collection of Nuts, Zoo, and Reveal magazine - all obscuring the latest Cosmo. Flicking past such profound musings as ‘These Men Want You!’, 'Her Fist Slammed Into My Face' and 'Romance Takes More Than Just Flowers' I found an article about what makes Jennifer Lopez happy. Not wishing to sink to such inane levels (unhappiness is, for example, trying to lose baby weight), I was more (relatively speaking, obviously) interested in the ditty Q&As with Nick Clegg, David Cameron, and Gordon Brown.
You might be interested to know Dave Cam would be a farmer if not a politician. Cleggy likes Super Mario on the Wii and Golden Brown is a fan of 'most talent shows'. You might, like me be COMPLETELY BLOODY FED UP with politics and you just KNOW it's spin and blah blah BUT... one thing is consistent. When it comes to relaxing, they all answer along the lines of getting back to basics... growing veg, being in the mountains. Getting back to basics - to nature.
According to an article on Busika (share your knowledge!!) about Seeking Happiness, one way of figuring out what truly makes us happy is escaping material culture and 'going green'. According to this article, green - the colour of nature - represents balance and growth. It is a 'restful' colour for human eyes with great healing power. The article goes on to advise 'give yourself some time to decompress and make a good connection with Mother Nature'. Decompress?!! Oh maaan that's what it is! I'm SO compressed right now.
I guess this is particularly appealing to humanist psychologists, believing in the vague concept of a 'true nature' corrupted by consumerism, society, and technology.... The French-American microbiologist, experimental pathologist (??), environmentalist, humanist... Mr. Bloody Everything, Rene Dubos, took a slightly unconventional stance on the subject. The human desire to find an environment 'not subservient to the technological order' is not regressive or escapist in nature, but rather a progressive outlook. Achieving such a situation requires courage because we have to free ourselves from societal constraints in order to express our true nature. This impulse is, according to Rene, so widespread it will 'become a dominant social force in the future'.
Well I hope so, because it sounds considerably better than being 'compressed'. For now, I don't get much choice about being outside which only makes me crave my duvet. Which is of course testament to wanting what you can't have and admiring the green lush grass on the other side of that rotting ol’metaphysical fence. So tomorrow, in the fine silky drizzle of South Shields I'll remember this.
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