Comments on: The Face of Another http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/ Skewered bits of what really matters. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 17:31:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 By: flat-black http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-592 flat-black Mon, 24 Dec 2007 16:31:39 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-592 Hey Steven, That's great that you don't usually listen to music when you're traveling. The new sounds around you are definitely music in themselves. I like what you said about the connection you form with the new world and the message of the author you're reading- same here. I'm also a heavy reader when traveling, and the perfect book usually ends up falling into my lap. The last time I left NYC, I ventured out to Mexico, and picked up Cormac McCarthy's latest book, "The Road". It was the perfect book for me at the time, 'cause I was traveling alone in a very trying mind-state. I bought a ticket to Mexico about 10 hours before leaving, and really needed some strong inspiration to help boost me up in a country that I've never been before. Not to mention, the much rawer conditions. I ended up taking a lot more risks than I usually do, and it ended up being one amazing trip. Hey Steven,
That’s great that you don’t usually listen to music when you’re traveling. The new sounds around you are definitely music in themselves.

I like what you said about the connection you form with the new world and the message of the author you’re reading- same here. I’m also a heavy reader when traveling, and the perfect book usually ends up falling into my lap. The last time I left NYC, I ventured out to Mexico, and picked up Cormac McCarthy’s latest book, “The Road”. It was the perfect book for me at the time, ’cause I was traveling alone in a very trying mind-state. I bought a ticket to Mexico about 10 hours before leaving, and really needed some strong inspiration to help boost me up in a country that I’ve never been before. Not to mention, the much rawer conditions. I ended up taking a lot more risks than I usually do, and it ended up being one amazing trip.

]]> By: Steven Nishida http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-581 Steven Nishida Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:47:06 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-581 flat-black: Very nice. I couldn't agree more about people allowing peer and societal pressures to mold them into a shadow of their true selves. <a href="http://realityonastick.com/2007/03/10/keepin-it-real-a-guide-to-hope-and-happiness/" rel="nofollow">Keepin' it real</a> is no small undertaking. In fact, I find I need to check myself--in the "befo' you wreck yo'self" sense--at regular intervals or else I get lost in the all the commotion and trite comparisons. So true that traveling, especially alone, is the cure-all to mental ailments. Sounds cheesy, but you def have to lose yourself in a new environment to find yourself again. A few people get that, but most don't. They're too caught up in their trivial routines to see who they've become and <a href="http://realityonastick.com/2007/11/20/life-changing-opportunities-its-all-about-timingoh-and-being-ready-to-catch-the-ball-and-run-with-it/" rel="nofollow">what might actually make them happy</a>. I don't usually listen to music when I'm traveling, except for live performances, I guess because I want to hear all the new sounds around me. With all the time in transit and chilling out in cool new places, I tend to read voraciously, though, and I always end up forming some very strong connections between the new world around me and the message of the author I am reading. I'm a huge fan of Sci-Fi and philosophically heavy fiction when I am traveling. flat-black: Very nice. I couldn’t agree more about people allowing peer and societal pressures to mold them into a shadow of their true selves. Keepin’ it real is no small undertaking. In fact, I find I need to check myself–in the “befo’ you wreck yo’self” sense–at regular intervals or else I get lost in the all the commotion and trite comparisons. So true that traveling, especially alone, is the cure-all to mental ailments. Sounds cheesy, but you def have to lose yourself in a new environment to find yourself again. A few people get that, but most don’t. They’re too caught up in their trivial routines to see who they’ve become and what might actually make them happy.

I don’t usually listen to music when I’m traveling, except for live performances, I guess because I want to hear all the new sounds around me. With all the time in transit and chilling out in cool new places, I tend to read voraciously, though, and I always end up forming some very strong connections between the new world around me and the message of the author I am reading. I’m a huge fan of Sci-Fi and philosophically heavy fiction when I am traveling.

]]> By: flat-black http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-580 flat-black Sun, 23 Dec 2007 20:52:29 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-580 Thanks a lot Catriona, Glad you liked the posting. Another funny thing about the new music that I listen to while traveling usually only makes sense when I'm traveling. When I return to my country, the newly acquired music doesn't seem to fit the old environment, and then I usually end up getting back into the same music that I was listening to before I left on my adventure. I guess the old structure begins to reclaim it's old mold once again. Although, I'm sure that if I transposed the existing structure of my current environment, my music would probably change again as well. Thanks a lot Catriona,
Glad you liked the posting.
Another funny thing about the new music that I listen to while traveling usually only makes sense when I’m traveling. When I return to my country, the newly acquired music doesn’t seem to fit the old environment, and then I usually end up getting back into the same music that I was listening to before I left on my adventure. I guess the old structure begins to reclaim it’s old mold once again. Although, I’m sure that if I transposed the existing structure of my current environment, my music would probably change again as well.

]]> By: Catriona http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-579 Catriona Fri, 21 Dec 2007 12:21:06 +0000 http://realityonastick.com/2007/12/18/the-face-of-another/#comment-579 What a great post, I have been thinking about it all day, what you were saying about the sounds you listen to. I often wonder why I seem so steeped, so entrenched in the past, in my own personal history, in decisions I made, roads I took and it is probably partly because I listen to music that takes me back 20 years( and some !) and then I get lost in who I was then. I guess it all comes down to being in the moment and accepting the who you are of that moment as we are always so wide open to possibility. One of the great things I always found about travelling was the possibility of the day before me, who knew where I would end up, what I would do, who I might meet... Thanks for the food for thought. What a great post, I have been thinking about it all day, what you were saying about the sounds you listen to. I often wonder why I seem so steeped, so entrenched in the past, in my own personal history, in decisions I made, roads I took and it is probably partly because I listen to music that takes me back 20 years( and some !) and then I get lost in who I was then.

I guess it all comes down to being in the moment and accepting the who you are of that moment as we are always so wide open to possibility.

One of the great things I always found about travelling was the possibility of the day before me, who knew where I would end up, what I would do, who I might meet…

Thanks for the food for thought.

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