Something that should feel like a personal marvel becomes something that feels mass produced and over exposed.
I certainly resonate with this, and I think you're correct in linking it to all the pressure to not only see but be seen seeing, enjoying, living. I think it robs us of the experience to an extent that even as it's happening, we're already thinking about being someplace else. The next event. Or talking to someone inside our screens, maybe.
PS: What a name for a flower. I might've gone for that alone
Ha yes it's very gothic! It's quite magnificent really... I would have liked to have seen it. Maybe in another ten years.
You're right. We aren't truly present. I think I prefer my marvels on my own, screen less. Perhaps translating the experience into the very personal medium of language which captures the moment better and is only shared amongst my nearest and dearest, such as people on Hive, but even so, at a later time, when it's been fully marvelled at, digested, mulled over.
And perhaps you should find out the locations of corpse flowers near you? I know there's one at Kew Gardens.
I mean, if I have to, I guess I must head to the UK :P
I just googled, Kew Garden's corpse flower just bloomed in June this year. They say there's bloom every few years
Everytime I go back to the UK I am desperate to go to Kew gardens. When I lived near there I never went. Idiot. It's always such a mission from the MILs though.