Plato's Cave

I've got no philosophical education but today I was thinking about Plato's Cave.

In my head this is how that story goes: people are stuck in the safety of a cave and wonder if they should go out for freedom or stay inside where they know what to expect.

To be honest i'd be 100% going out of that stupid cave

I wonder how many people would stay inside and how many people would leave?
I noticed that this theorem works for every day situations too:

Investment
People that are making monetary investments/ people working at a stock market must have this going through their head every second of the day. Should they invest their savings and have a chance to grow wealthier, or stay in the security of their current financial situation

Comment
This situation usually happens to me as I comment a lot on what people say. Most of the time, I am not afraid to comment even if it is inappropriate/unexpected. I wonder how many people keep their thoughts to themselves and fill up their minds of stuff that they'll never have the courage to say

Embarrassment

For all of you who want to sing a song out loud, show the world something you composed, display something you've painted...just fucking do it. It is most probable that people are afraid of embarrassment, the judgement of their peers or negative reactions. People that choose to stay in the cave are the ones that will keep their talents to themselves for fear of being ridiculed. I've got no right to judge but I simply think we should base our actions on our own motives.

While writing this I realized that the cavern theory is simply another term for the feeling of "risk".

taking risks is clearly explained by monkey bars in children's playground

you need to let go in order to move on.

photography

Photography is something I enjoy mostly because I do not make time for it.
I always tell myself that I'll eventually take time to look at photography technique/theory books, but this never happens.

Also, I have difficulty in comprehending the notion of a "good picture".
When people take pictures, it is usually because they think they've seen something amazing and want to capture it on film. How does an observer, without any explanation from the photographer, judge the picture if he/she doesn't know what was on the photographer's mind?

It is this lack of time/boundary /questions/complications/that i like in you.

Heres some pictures I took (non-edited)!

pluie d'été

Ever since school ended on April 30th, my IQ has lowered about 25%
I have no intentions of gaining cultural knowledge, being artistic, having philosophic conversations
Its like the emotion of "crazy fun" has been inducted into my mind and has taken all the space provided. This is the main reason why I have not written here for a while, because I do not feel any need to write random things that pass my mind. To be honest, I don't think about anything serious, i just feel something and do it without second thought.

It feels just like the influence heavy summer rain has on us.
It is so overwhelming that we cannot think of anything else at the moment.
Our preoccupations are focused on the rain and for that time period we forget whatever else was on our minds.

I took this picture in Osaka, Japan
A lot of young people were skateboarding at this place during the daytime but I was too shy to take a picture of them. It was one of my last days in Osaka and I did not want to spend it trapped in my hotel room. I decided to walk outside despite the rain because walking without a destination is even crazier during heavy rain.
My logic was:
No destination (something negative) + Heavy Rain (something negative) = Positive
There was nothing to think or worry about.

Because everyone wants to look back and remember this feeling of carelessness.

toi

I know a girl
She puts the colors, inside my world.
But she's just like a maze
Where all of the walls are
Continually changed.

An elderly man was sitting alone.
He wasn't sure of which direction to go, and he'd forgotten both where he was traveling to... and who he was. He'd sat down for a moment to rest his weary legs, and suddenly looked up to see an elderly woman before him. She grinned toothlessly and with a cackle, spoke: "Now your third wish. What will it be?"

"Third wish?" The man was baffled. "How can it be a third wish if I haven’t had a first and second wish?"

"You’ve had two wishes already," the hag said, "but your second wish was for me to return everything to the way it was before you had made your first wish. That’s why you remember nothing; because everything is the way it was before you made any wishes." She cackled at the poor man. "So it is that you have one wish left."

"All right," he said hesitantly, "I don't believe this, but there's no harm in trying. I wish to know who I am."

"Funny," said the old woman as she granted his wish and disappeared forever. "That was your first wish...

The internet has the copyright to this story. don't sue me. I would plead bad faith on you. :)

timeless.

Do you know of one song that is timeless and brings you back to what you were feeling the first time you heard it?
For me, that song is Konstantine by Something Corporate.
I try not to listen to it too often because I'm scared it will lose its uniqueness
But every time I do,
Konstantine makes me feel exactly how I felt when I was 16 and this song meant the world to me

Being a teenager, I think I gave this song much more meaning than I could feel at that time, but some people say teenagers' feelings are 10x exaggerated/increased, so who knows really?

"This is to a girl who got into my head with all the pretty things she did"

PS: Something Corporate is making a reunion tour this summer. I would still give my left and right arm just to hear that song live.

Wild Photography

I recently bought a camera and here's one of the first pictures I took with it
It's my roomate trying to tame a wild cat that has been lurking around our apartment
Notice there's another cat in the picture, maybe jealous and wanting to be tamed