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"Humankind should keep their feet grounded where there is physical ground but learn to fly where there is imagination."
CityVP Manjit

I asked readers to consider sharing their thoughts about why write on social media. The following response is written by @CityVP Manjit.

"When I walk into a public library I feel like I have the whole world on the tip of my finger and all I need is the will to touch that world and become one with it. My time sense then becomes one where I lose the sense of time and in this I feel most alive. Then my consciousness returns to the unconscious, because in a library it is rare to find another who walks into with wonder, the majority walk into a public library with an objective, which is to take out a book or books. Opening a book opens another world of wonder unless we wish to consume knowledge, and consumption of knowledge makes for a world obese in ideas rather than free in flow.
When I look at the image to this buzz of all the social media symbols they begin to look like the bars of a prison and yet the key to this prison is not on the other side where freedom is but within me and so I am not seeing posts and I am not seeing in times, in this very moment I see wonder again because for me this is a virtual public library combined with learning laboratory. For sure when I leave the public library or the virtual one here I return to the demands of the world and the realities of the flesh.
Humankind should keep their feet grounded where there is physical ground but learn to fly where there is imagination. If we do too much of the former we remain buried by the demands that are very real demands and if we do too much of the latter we can lose our minds and get lost in our own flow - so flow as Mihaly said is not just a sense of wonder, it must be held in balance with the supply and demand that is the functionings of the world. What I write and what I don't write is either flow or presence - I can't subscribe others to do this because this is their choice. Our flow can create our own prison or it can create our own freedom."CityVP Manjit