So this one day I was staring into nowhere and did not realise it until I was asked what I was staring at. I then thought ‘what was I staring at?’, but i was actually in deep thought. I tend to look at something, someone or people doing something and then I wonder. I know they say it’s rude to stare but I like to observe and then think.
Since that day I have, for some or other reason, been doing that all the time. I named it ‘observing my surroundings’. I would ‘observe my surrounding’ and see, e.g. a man painting a wall yellow, and immediately my mind becomes flooded with thoughts and while this happens I stare unintentionally.
With that example, thoughts like:
· Why is he painting the wall? (Could it be renovation, or simply a seasonal change?)
· What made the person in charge choose yellow? (Was there no better choice, or was there a sale on yellow paint?)
· Why is a women not painting the wall? (Are there no women painters out there, or are they maybe painting the inside of the building?)
I have silly thoughts like that, but then again I love to wonder. Observing things and people makes me wonder and think. I sometimes think of how things are made and who came up with it, if people are happy and even what they studied. Observation has become an everyday thing. I’d do it in class during a lecture, observing fellow students, what they do, how they react to what the lecturer may be saying.
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