Friday, August 6, 2010

The beauty of Effervescence

I was at a social gathering tonight, an x amount of photographers teeming and exchanging at a local lounge in the neighborhood. I was just standing there with my camera, engrossing myself in this human expressway of expressions, mannerisms, and idioms, of verbs and nouns and what not. I couldn't help but think to myself how beautiful it is to engulf myself in the experience of all the who what when where and why's of conversation. My pupils dilating like the lens of a camera and snapping away at the images it chooses to send to my cerebrum. It really is such an enlivening experience to be in social gatherings because it forces you out of your comfort zone and into the spotlight. The reason why we gain so much from this experience is, in fact, an intrinsic part of our evolution and survival. The german sociologist Karl Marx states that 'human beings are intrinsically, necessarily and by definition social beings who, beyond being "gregarious creatures", cannot survive and meet their needs other than trough social co-operation and association.'

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