Opportunities around you
April 4, 2008 | 4:21 pmWhat if connections between objects are more important than objects? What would happen if you during a day prioritized connections? There are possibilities in each person, we know that. We exercise, we study, we work on our career and we spend time on our outward appearance. But think like this … what if there are possibilities in connections to other people? Unnoticed, undeveloped possibilities. Have your met people temporarily and felt like you have known each other for ages? Have you considered that you might have missed one or two of these connections, or perhaps a whole bunch of them?
What would happen if we for a day when doing our business looked around and noticed the people around us? If you are like me, your mind is most often wandering around and we don’t see when we are looking. We behave like a night train moving across the country. We have preconceived ideas of people we meet and our ideas immediately take control and hinder us from being curious and open. What if there are undiscovered treasures passing by today? New friendships? People, whom you can give something that they really need?
What if connections between objects are more important that objects? What would happen if we, for a week, put as much energy and effort in developing existing relationships as we do to develop ourselves. Do we give up too easy on relations? What you have together with your friends might be much more valuable than the sum of your separate values.
I’m sitting here in my working room at home and thinking. Discovering things about myself. Challenging myself. Some questions, aren’t they? What do you think?
When I´m reading your post Anders I start thinking about the diversity of human culture and it´s effect on day to day business, well life in general perhaps. In the “westernized†sphere of the world we focus more at the object rather then the connection itself. In Sweden we, for sure, focus more at the objects. We even have an hard time talking to strangers at the local bus stop.
But then again. There is people even in our world that focus deeply upon a broad social network, do they focus at the connection rather then the object? Or is it so, that they focus at the object and thats why they connect with people?
I agree that the connection between objects are more important than the object itself.
Just my 5 cents!