If some talented person magically appeared in your home or office, and began performing a passionate(充满热情的) private concert for you, you’d be moved. It’s rare these days to see someone performing a craft live and in person. Yet these musicians performing on the street, putting their full energy out into the world for anyone’s pleasure, gained no reaction. People walked past without a glance, staring at their own shoes, as if they were surrounded by long dead sidewalks.
It’s strange how we can spend hours a day behind electric screens of various shapes and sizes, bored by how unreal much of it is, yet walk right past living musicians without a glance. We treat amazing things as if they weren’t there.
As I stood listening, I soon felt strange. Why am I the only one here? Even though I knew it was right to stay and listen, it felt strange because I was alone. Had there been a crowd around any of the musicians, more people would have stopped to join, simply because they could do it without feeling strange. But standing alone, I felt I was doing something wrong. It’s sad, but I’m no longer that crazy kid in high school, running through the hallways. Now I’m more like the others, worried more about standing out than enjoying the world.
I call this the challenge of indifference. As we grow up we’re taught self-control, how to focus ourselves, and how to tune out things that are “wrong” or “juvenile” or “wastes of time.” We become indifferent to the whims(突发奇想) of the child mind, trading it in for suits and resumes—the tools of success in the adult world.
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