Blog Session 4: The human need to create and transform things.

I'd like to talk about something I've realized this week: the human need to create and transform material things. 

When I am bored I usually watch movies, series, I chat on Facebook, read blog's or magazines, but always is something I can do online. I can't separate myself from my notebook, it's like I'm going to be alone without it. This dependence makes me sad because I realize that I'm doing NOTHING, just wasting time in things that will not transcend.

The other day, I was sitting in my desk chair thinking about this and trying to figure out what to do about it when suddenly, I find myself playing with an earring in my hand. I pay attention to what I'm doing: I'm transforming it!! I got excited and went to my jewelry box to get my other earrings and I started to transform them all. I combined the parts and create whole new earrings. After that, I felt inexplicable happy and satisfied with my work so I decided that I was going to create things. I cut colorful pictures from abandoned magazines and collage them to built a new wallet. I realized that I needed more light in my room to study so I decided to buy a lamp. I remembered a lamp I built in High School, so I thought: "what if I make one?" I went to Homecenter and bought everything I needed. I haven't started to work yet, but I know I'm going to be very proud to say: "Yes! I've made that lamp!"
I think the satisfaction and happiness I felt with this tiny decisions is only explicable by the human need to transform the environment surrounding us. Is the feeling of knowing that you can create the things you buy -not everything of course-, the knowing that you aren't useless. Maybe that's why we are alienate, because capitalism has taken away from us the opportunity of take care of ourselves without recurring to it. Maybe is and spiritual way to explain why we are so disconnected with the nature, the others and ourselves.