Between Breadth and Depth

There are days when people want to go out, and
days when they want to stay home.


Neither is necessarily the right way.

It is simply that we choose based on
what we are seeking at that moment.

When you go outside, you encounter the vastness of the sky and the scent of the wind.

The scenery is always changing, and you can feel that the world
is expanding outside of yourself.

The outdoors
teaches us that we are small beings.

Perhaps that is why
people feel a sense of liberation in nature.

On the other hand, the indoors is the opposite.

While placing yourself in the limited space of a room,
you dive into books, music,
or your own thoughts.

Here, you are not traveling through the breadth of the outside,
but through the depth of the inside.

A world surrounded by walls may seem narrow, but
it can expand infinitely depending on your state of mind.

Outdoors and indoors.

At first glance, they seem like opposites, but
perhaps both are actually
means to 'relativize oneself'.

When you go outside,
you re-examine yourself in the face of the 'scale of the world'.

When you stay inside, you search for yourself within your 'own depth'.

That is why people go back and forth, depending on their mood.

Sometimes they seek breadth,
and sometimes they seek depth.

It is
repeated in a rhythm as natural as breathing.

In the end, both the outdoors and the indoors
are likely providing us with places to live
alternately.