The Human Experience.

It is the repetitive motions that will take a mind through a day of banality. The mind will acutely refocus itself on small details that upon repeating the original movement will make it a more efficient action. It has to do with muscle memory, memorization of visual patterns, and push of focus. Sometimes focus means opening your eyes wider so that you can grasp as much as possible, or so that your eyes are not diverted to some other direction. Opening your eyelids wider than normal usually negates extreme movement and it denotes a sense of concentration in many people. Other people close their eyes to concentrate – but this is only to internalize an action, not to execute it in a continual matter.

For example a person running a race will close their eyes perhaps before the race, or at the start line, or just at the finish line to exactly internalize and hone the energies they are soon to exert in order to negate the external factors. Think: the race itself.
Such as a musician will close his eyes for few seconds at a time, rooting the emotions of the piece, but will open their eyes to watch their fingers, or other movements of the body.

It is the repetitive motions that will take a mind through a day of banality. The mind will acutely refocus itself on a small detail that upon repeating the original movement will make its task more efficient. It is this refocusing and this repetition that will make the occurrence refreshing but not straining. Between the evolving detail, the mind will be allowed to wander between thoughts of its present task, and others of unrelated incidents. It is entirely dependant on the nature of the person or the nature of the thought that will make this “break time” desirable or detestable.

A girl named Jayne will sit and swing in the park playground. It is not exactly her dream to be here forever, but if needs be that time will pass before she can leave there are other things to discover like the tube slide, the monkey bars, the sand box, and a nice patch of grass suitable for naps. She can master the swing by slightly changing the position of her hands, by shifting the timing of her strength, and will eventually be able to pump the swing to a bigger velocity than before.

So she waits. By and by she pumps her arms and her legs. 3 seconds until the contraption shakes –though rooted in the ground. No one has come to fetch poor Jayne, and past dinner time she sleeps. Unfortunately, Jayne is in the middle of a faceless city so she cannot see the stars as she closes her eyes to the night, however no one will molest her or kill her. So do not worry about that.

In the morning, she returns to the task, but tires at it soon after, seeing as she has already set world records at speed and efficiency. So likewise she passes from task to task, over many days and becomes the proficient playground athlete. But Jayne does not smile. She does not imagine what one should be imagining while swinging upside down from monkey bars. She passes through frustration, a benign expectancy and determined indifference. She is thinking: when will he call; when will he come.

Do not think that Jayne is dependant upon this singular promised occurrence in order to consider herself a complete human being, or even able to leave the boundaries of the playground. But she does not want to leave because curiosity did once kill her cat, and she is afraid of letting interest rest at bay. She is also afraid that a war will start in two separate human hearts and that ignorance of such events is the reason that the Middle East is constantly at war. If everyone knew that they were loved as individuals, would it be enough to relinquish this hunt for power? Oh would it were so.
I myself am fearful that Jayne is only concerned for one heart presently – for she pictures the battles of someone who willfully fights without a director of cinematography.
So if this war does happen – it will all be in vain: for no one will love, and no one will learn.

So she waits.

It is the repetitive motions that will take a mind through a day of banality. The mind will acutely refocus itself on a small detail that upon repeating the original movement will make its task more efficient, and upon conquering that detail, conquer another until the mind is essentially a processing machine of action. This process is useful in circumventing loss, procrastinating, and instigating free roaming thought. In certain cases all three.

Oh Jayne, your playground has become a market factory. Do not forget that you too are to be loved.

-with thanks to Amy and love to Frank