I mostly try to reach to all of my thoughts
mostly with my memory, so it’s pretty usual I don’t quite remember most of
things I have written (though if I look at them I suddenly do). There’s
something I had written a long time ago, maybe still in this year, and it was,
god, I should have named that idea, it was about following a path that works
and ignoring the surrounding things, that accumulate in the corners or
something. Damn, I’ll have to look it up.
Okay, it was called “background turned into sprites”.
And there you go, that’s the name that will be important to use in here.
Sprites. That’s about what feel we can interact in the world. It’s about the
vertices that we are conscious about. Most of us follow formulas to get through
tasks, and everything besides it is just background. I admit it, I am one of
those.
But the right thing to do would be to consider
all vertices as sprites. True, it’s impossible to deal with all those elements,
but it’s the right thing nevertheless. This way, one’s chance of fixing
problems goes beyond the unplug/replug or giving the machine one good kick.
This idea is about doing some more than
learning the necessary steps. It’s about knowing how pieces in the Rubik’s Cube
move with the set of movements, instead of just knowing the formula to change
the cubes into places. It’s about knowing all about your guitar than simply
knowing the notes on the bridge. Or
knowing how the engine of the car works instead of just thinking it just needs
gas.
Clearly, this is something I only wish I could
do, and in a way I am afraid of dreaming with it, or even trying and facing one
more painful realization of my guillotined potential. But if there’s something
I’ve learned in here, it’s that constant effort increases our range of perception
of all these peripheral vertices usually seen mostly as background.
