The people-channel
November 22, 2008 | 9:00 pmI appreciate and enjoy being out in nature as you might have understood by earlier posts. Umeå is a small town with about 100 000 inhabitants. I live on the outskirts of the town and I just have to cross my lawn to stroll in the woods. When I walk my dog out there, most of the times I meet no human at all. When you love nature, it is easy to dislike big cities. They seem cramped, dirty, harsh and noisy. People living there can look stressful, busy and sometimes even hostile.
Last week I was in Stockholm, the capital of Sweden, for a few days. When I travelled with the subway each day I realized that I liked very much to be in a crowd. I have not always felt like this. I used to dislike or at least not enjoy crowds or queues and I hadn’t noticed this change in me until now.
Today I was out in the woods with my dog again and then I suddenly realized that I felt (almost) the same being in a crowd as being out in nature. Hmmm. How could that be possible? A city is full of houses, streets and cars. Yes, sure. But it is also full of people. Full of individuals. It dawned to me that it depends on how you look and which channel you tune into. Nature is beautiful because there is life out there. People are living and beautiful, whether they hurry or not, whether they give you attention or not and whether they smile or not.
My conclusion was: If we slow down and tune into the channel of nature and keep this channel on the dial, we will see and relate to people differently.
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