I absolutely lack the courage to write this blog. My thoughts were just moving around in the corners of my room but I can't just hold them and put them together to establish my simple thought of walking with a stranger.
I just would like to divide the title into three different parts: the act of walking, 'with', a stranger. By acknowledging the separation of these words maybe I can establish a good blog out of these phrase.
First word, walking. The act of walking is very common to us. We walk everyday. Though we drive our own cars or we ride mass transits, we do walk... even just a little walk. While we walk, we are given the opportunity to just simply be ourselves, allow ourselves to fascinate what the surroundings can offer, to stop by and to appreciate what we can see by our senses. By walking we are in control of ourselves and in control of our own destiny. By this I mean, contrary to driving or riding on a car, we are given the utmost freedom to control ourselves. The will to stop and arrive at our destination under our own desire, to arrive on time or to be late but still made it. When we walk we are relaxed and focused. We can look at ourselves from the outside and into the inside, and we see ourselves respond to stimulus from the environment. In conclusion, when we walk we allow ourselves to interact with our environment and to think as to what these phenomenon conveys to us.
Second word, 'with'. In one of my special English classes I always commit mistakes in using prepositions, most especially on the preposition 'with'. I looked back at my mistakes and realized something insignificant to what an English teacher can see; that I am an existential thinker. I always believe in the word 'with'. This word embodies a deeper existential meaning rather than merely a literary word. 'With" embodies the act of being 'with', note here that the word being means existential presence; the act of being present to a person as a subjective individual. This relays a message of subjectivity rather than possessiveness or objectivity. Summarily, to be 'with' means to open, to relate, and to be in communion with.
Third word, a stranger. Being estranged became a fundamental debate throughout the history of philosophy. You can have Marx as he uses the word alienation to signify estrangement, Kierkegaard as positing man's estrangement to God, and Camus as the writer of the novel The Stranger. Well, in this case we won't be using philosophy that much. I focus on the word stranger as something that is new to us, it can be a person, event, or community whichever is helpful in this manner. For this purpose we would be using the person.
Being with a stranger means that being in communion with a stranger can allow us to view the world in a different perspective. To look at phenomena in a brighter way, if you see it in the darker way; or to look at phenomena in a darker way, if you see it in the brighter way. Being with a stranger would give us different thoughts of morality and objectivity. This occurs because the stranger is giving a new insight while we, also a stranger to them, gives also a different insight which may be acceptable or not. In other words, we learn from these strangers. Just being with them would give that amount of realization, how much more would it be if we walk with them.
Walking with a stranger means allowing to experience what the world would be if we experience it together, not as a well-acquainted individuals but as a mere stranger to one's self and to the other. The more will we appreciate happenings in our life and the more will we understand the value of living this life. We stop and appreciate, look back, think and re-think. We continue walking and we see another event, then stop. Until we reach to a point of fulfillment, that somehow walking with a stranger would give us new insights of our estrangement.
I just would like to divide the title into three different parts: the act of walking, 'with', a stranger. By acknowledging the separation of these words maybe I can establish a good blog out of these phrase.
First word, walking. The act of walking is very common to us. We walk everyday. Though we drive our own cars or we ride mass transits, we do walk... even just a little walk. While we walk, we are given the opportunity to just simply be ourselves, allow ourselves to fascinate what the surroundings can offer, to stop by and to appreciate what we can see by our senses. By walking we are in control of ourselves and in control of our own destiny. By this I mean, contrary to driving or riding on a car, we are given the utmost freedom to control ourselves. The will to stop and arrive at our destination under our own desire, to arrive on time or to be late but still made it. When we walk we are relaxed and focused. We can look at ourselves from the outside and into the inside, and we see ourselves respond to stimulus from the environment. In conclusion, when we walk we allow ourselves to interact with our environment and to think as to what these phenomenon conveys to us.
Second word, 'with'. In one of my special English classes I always commit mistakes in using prepositions, most especially on the preposition 'with'. I looked back at my mistakes and realized something insignificant to what an English teacher can see; that I am an existential thinker. I always believe in the word 'with'. This word embodies a deeper existential meaning rather than merely a literary word. 'With" embodies the act of being 'with', note here that the word being means existential presence; the act of being present to a person as a subjective individual. This relays a message of subjectivity rather than possessiveness or objectivity. Summarily, to be 'with' means to open, to relate, and to be in communion with.
Third word, a stranger. Being estranged became a fundamental debate throughout the history of philosophy. You can have Marx as he uses the word alienation to signify estrangement, Kierkegaard as positing man's estrangement to God, and Camus as the writer of the novel The Stranger. Well, in this case we won't be using philosophy that much. I focus on the word stranger as something that is new to us, it can be a person, event, or community whichever is helpful in this manner. For this purpose we would be using the person.
Being with a stranger means that being in communion with a stranger can allow us to view the world in a different perspective. To look at phenomena in a brighter way, if you see it in the darker way; or to look at phenomena in a darker way, if you see it in the brighter way. Being with a stranger would give us different thoughts of morality and objectivity. This occurs because the stranger is giving a new insight while we, also a stranger to them, gives also a different insight which may be acceptable or not. In other words, we learn from these strangers. Just being with them would give that amount of realization, how much more would it be if we walk with them.
Walking with a stranger means allowing to experience what the world would be if we experience it together, not as a well-acquainted individuals but as a mere stranger to one's self and to the other. The more will we appreciate happenings in our life and the more will we understand the value of living this life. We stop and appreciate, look back, think and re-think. We continue walking and we see another event, then stop. Until we reach to a point of fulfillment, that somehow walking with a stranger would give us new insights of our estrangement.
