The nature of connection

The connections we have and our relationship with them largely determines our lives, moods, and what we see. I think that's easy to understand at a people level - the conversation we had on the way to work, the person in a hurry who barged past getting on the train, and the mood of those surrounding you at work. So far, so obvious.

But what about the things you own - your clothes, car, and laptop? Your house, your subscriptions, your holidays? All of these have a story all their own, now interwoven with yours. Their history, from the mining of materials and growing of crops, through manufacture and distribution, are all part of somebody else's story now woven into yours. So there is a long, thin filament of connection reaching out from each of us, connecting us - to each other, the things we own, and the things we take for granted. We have a relationship with each of them, and together they are part of who we are and how we feel today.

It is easy to forget this in our world of reduction…