Shuttling backward, forward or even staying at a particular point in time, through our thoughts, may be liberating. It may be liberating because thoughts can be a powerful tool. Through thoughts, material or tangible and intangible things can be created. To do this, thoughts have to be expressed. A medium is necessary so that the thoughts can be recreated when it is expressed. Movement is necessary so that a thought is expressed through a medium and is recreated or changed from one form to another. Thought is transformed from something inactive to something that has a potential to become something else.
Art is a form of expression. It is expression of a thought or thoughts captured from a particular time which is the past. What is in the past may be good or bad depending on the individuals experience, perception, culture, as well as physical, emotional and other background. If the individual is able to learn lessons from the past, and is able to make changes to improve the original condition in the present and is rewarded in some form in the future, then this implies that the past has become liberating.
There are as many thoughts as there are many forms of art to express these thoughts. An artist may not be limited in choosing which art form to use or even make a combination of these forms. The art form produced may also be either tangible or not, depending on the artists thoughts or some other factors.
For artists or individuals benefiting from any art form or product that is tangible, they would consider the condition of being tangible as being real. Meaning, this art form product is real because it can be sensed. When an individual accepts this, it implies that the individual is limited by what is sensed. Meaning, all other things that cannot be sensed- by touch, taste, smell, hearing, seeing becomes not real.
The question is, can something that is not tangible and therefore not be sensed, be not real Because when an individual thinks, whether of the past, the present, or the future, an individual actually recreates transforms something in the mind which is not tangible but becomes potentially tangible or transforms into another tangible thing like concepts and ideas.
By holding onto what is real, or what can be sensed, the individual limits itself to that particular tangible thing which was created in a particular time and space. By limiting oneself to these real things, one acts like a baby kangaroo still in its mothers pouch. And this is similar to saying that one is only thinking inside the box.
Compare this with thoughts of being outside of the pouch or thinking outside of the box, and you find an individual which learns not only what is inside the box, but also of what is outside, underneath, and on top of the box. And even what could possibly be when one is far away from the box or even see what could possibly be if there was no box at all. When ones thoughts are also outside of the box, one senses a potential. And because there can be many thoughts, then one can sense many potentials.
Especially for the elderly or even sickly, thoughts of death may be considered as a possibility. This is no different from saying that when the elderly and sickly thinks of dying, this individual has actually limited himself herself to that particular reality. Meaning, they close themselves to the possibilities of a potential life after being at a particular age or life after improving ones health. What is unfortunate about this is that even science confirms that our body reacts to the way we think. Have thoughts of death and one dies even more rapidly. Have thoughts of possibilities and one creates those possibilities into something else other than dying.
The real problem is not really death but how to live time. Art forms remind us of people, events, ideas and things in the past. And there are many that could be depicted from the past through different art works. And the wonderful thing about art is that it does not end in just showing, sometimes in tangible and sometimes in abstract form, the past. It recreates itself by telling about something in the past and moving or transforming into the future. Its depiction of the past becomes meaningful to the person who benefits from the art form. And by transforming into something else, especially into something useful, the art form becomes more meaningful.
The beauty of recreating something through different art forms is that many benefit. The effects are multiplied and even become cyclical. Meaning many benefits, for example emotionally, socially and culturally and those who benefit have the potential of recreating other art forms products which in turn give benefit to more people. The thoughts which become art forms and products and which are used in various ways benefit become liberated.
To become liberated, debilitated or even be destroyed is a choice. To think of the past, the present or the future is also a choice. To create is an art form or to benefit from an art form or product is another choice. Unfortunately, to withhold an art form or product from public consumption is also sometimes considered a choice. To recreate from these art form product is another choice.
The choices are sometimes easy to make. For others it may be difficult. But thoughts may help so that the choices eventually become useful and meaningful. The important thing is to shuttle backward, forward or even stay at some point in time so that reflections thoughts may be made and choices become liberating actions.
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