Not not-reading

I haven't posted in this blog in a long time. But I am constantly reading.

Often in my reading, I come across potentially life-changing, perspective-shifting ideas. Today I am reminded of coming across these ideas during my mid-20's; and the feeling, back then, of getting ecstatically excited over their novelty. Slowly, these concepts and ideals had become part of me, my worldview, who I am today.

But I mention "those days" because I sense that I no longer greet ideas, big or small, the same way anymore. Perhaps part of me - the cynic - accepts that, no matter how righteous an idea, the world still operates under certain rules that are hard to overcome. (There, I refrained from using the word "insurmountable.") I wish that this - the cynic part of me - were not so. But it is what it is, and I am aware of it.

The reading that had brought about all of this is a response from independent filmmaker Jennifer Baichwal on how we live and how we waste. The piece was spotted in the magazine Filmmaker, part of the (wasteful) schwag bag from the Cinequest Independent Film Festival.