Consciousness upgrade
That one thing. The one thought that inspires a life time, a new tangent that makes a person see the world in a different way, a moment that lasts a lifetime. For me, it was sitting in a movie theatre watching “The Beach”. The characters, dismayed with a 'normal life', took to travelling in South-east Asia, seeking ever more exotic and remote destinations. In the end, they sought what I also sought – a deeper understanding of myself, a choice of action rather than a well run routine that had been prescribed and administered by a faceless yet ever present force. I walked into the theatre with tunnel vision, focused on the next party, the next pay rise, the next weekend. I walked out with a wider horizon, hungry to see what the world had to offer and conscious that the limitations in my life were somehow self imposed. People were out there, hungry for something different, something untouched, something pure and principled. The taste of freedom, only a feeling, had whe...