encounters

Last spring I did a project out in union square called "MY SPACE" it was a physical version of the myspace website.. I was trying to just talk to people out in public space and while doing so I met this guy called Joshua. He left some poems on my wall and I saw him a couple of times after that. Today I was walking on 14th st and I was stopped by none other than Joshua. It was pretty amusing, he came up to me and said excuse me but have we met before? I loved it. I told him yes we had and where. He was very happy to run into me. He told me that since the spring he's been to a lot of places. He just packed up and went to the midwest and traveled around with some friends by bike. He went from state to state, just being a wanderer and finally decided that he had to come back to NY because he had been having dreams about it. And now he was back, he just walks and wanders talking to whoever he feels a connection to, trying to figure out the questions of life. Why are we here? What are we doing? What is the point? What I loved most was... If a man spends his entire life working in aerodynamics, and builds plane after plane, figuring out the most efficient way for them to fly, how to carry more people, how to make them go higher... is it more meaningful than a man who spends his entire life at home making paper airplanes? 

I love people who just wander, in fact I'm very jealous of them, its very nice to not have anything to tie you down and no borders nor limitations.... Soon :)

more smiles

I was riding home today, and I got to the union square platform and saw a guy with an entire piano. He was playing "here comes the sun". It was quite a nice site, to see that it wasn't a guitar player, nor a drum player but a piano in the subway. I stood there listening for a while and I started to look around at the people who were watching him. It was really awesome to see people taking off their headphones just to hear the sound, and watching as some peoples faces changed from the usual manhattan scowl to a genuine smile. The guy who was playing got up and grabbed a piece of paper from the bucket where money was thrown in and told me he got a love letter. The letter said "Hey Mr piano man, I think that you are really awesome and I'm sorry that I don't have any money to give you but I genuinely want to thank you for making me smile and making my day, thank you." It is moments like these that make me love NY. I wonder if music really is the most powerful thing to change people.... "sing us a song you're the piano man, sing us a song tonight, cause we're all in the mood for a melody and you got us feeling all right."

or here to convert atheists into believers

"I ain't here to argue about his facial features or here to convert atheists into believers."

Today was an interesting day, from Obama the Antichrist to Obama the Freemason, to Jay Z and the Rockefeller's being reptilian organisms, to god never existing followed by god existing, followed by whats the difference between us and monkeys and finishing up with aliens teaching us the wheel and mathematics and the icing being the end of the world in 2012.

All these thoughts made me think a lot. Religion (a topic I didn't necessarily want to touch) seems to be a heated topic. I watched the Bucket List yesterday and I liked Nicholson's characters views on 2 things. One was about reincarnation. According to karma you move up and down the list according to how you live your life. Nicholson said, that's all fine but they lose me at one point, what the hell does a snail have to do to move up the list--- leave a perfect trail of slime? I thought that was great. And secondly, His views on life. He didn't say he was an Atheist per se he said I only know 2 things, one is that you are born and two, you die. That was a beautiful argument. I personally feel that there is no difference between religion and science, between the theories that aliens put us here and nursed us. The big bang and the 7 days are all the same to me. Because when you try to bring any of those arguments back to the start it always leads to the same answer, an unknown. And the entire difference in arguments is that some label that unknown as God and believe that it controls everything, some label that as aliens, and some label that as "science hasn't told us yet." Essentially its the same thing. A friend of mine said that its different because we know what God is, we have it figured out. That was probably the stupidest thing i've heard in a while. If we knew what God was, if we had him figured out then we would each be God. But honestly the only difference I see between Religion and Science is that Religion is based on trust and Science just asks more questions.