Quality Time
Tarkovsky asked by interviewer on the topic of “being alone”:
What would you like to tell young people?
Learn to love solitude, to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with young people is they’re carrying out noisy and aggressive action not to feel lonely. And this is a sad thing.
The individual must learn to be on his own as a child. For this doesn’t mean to be alone: it means not to get bored with oneself, which is a very dangerous symptom almost a disease.
- Andrei Tarkovsky
Quality time is almost non-existent these days. Whatever happened to taking quiet walks, star gazing, or just how many times do people these days spend quality time together, or even look forward to quality time, or know what it is?
Very few people stop to even appreciate the full moon. It’s just a quick “yeah nice”, and they’re off to something else (video games, bars, cell phone chat). Or for that matter anything of nature – thunder showers, streams, sunrise, trees,… or just reading a good book, or listening to a raga. That’s all quality time.
Probably an EMP (Electromagnetic Pulse) needs to explode over the city. An EMP device is a bomb that when exploded (usually above the ground) causes all electronics to get fried by a powerful pulse of electromagnetic energy (cell phones, tv, internet services, cars, traffic lights,… anything with electronics). I guess then people will come out (well in reality there would be all sort of mayhem and accidents!).
Sometimes I think the modern world’s solution to missing out on quality time is to do yoga — just that it shouldn’t be a substitute for quality-time, but be used to enhance it by integrating it with life.