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The act of participation!

By Bamboo In The Wind

Haziness emerges when we fail to strike cords. Nothing we see, encounter, or do catches our imagination. Imagination is a big part of forming an act of reciprocation in our minds. The excitement we feel about something is usually a result of a healthy imagination. It provides the hope that our constructive acknowledgment of what we experience will be worthwhile and satisfactory. Such imagination stems from automatic concurrence - an alignment of sorts.

We are okay with sitting on the fence until something appears on the horizon and makes us take note. That means we need to employ observation and align with the theme of everything that comes our way. It requires attention, sincerity, and openness to receive things different from our prior experiences. When that theme strikes the cord with us, it is because it amused us along unexpected lines. It shatters the state of known we like to be in. It makes us curious. This is when we engage with new learning, and haziness begins to disappear.

But how often do we have the patience to wait until we feel something expected has happened? How often do we lose the signal in the noise around us? We give up because doing so makes us fearful of being in unchartered territory, disconnected from what we already know.

The only way to catch the imagination is to observe, interact and create continuously. It involves a lot of unavoidable hauling of emotions and experiences. Sifting through all that we indulge ourselves in is like looking needle in a haystack. We need all our might to discover it. How alert and attentive we need to locate it! The possibility of finding what we are looking for is always hazy until then.

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