I have been already called random, several times, but a tree? Come on!
Tree: That is so random!
Andresko: Define random
Tree: Andresko!
Andresko: What?
Tree: you are random.
Andresko: ah… what do you mean?
Tree: What do you mean I mean?
Andresko: my question?
Tree: You know what I mean
Andresko: no, I don’t
Tree: forget it…
Randomness is associated with the right side of the brain. This side is also commonly associated with creativity, the present moment and all what connects us to other people and the universe. It is everything at this single moment in space and time. It allows us to be one with what surrounds us. The left hemisphere however, is a totally different sort of thing. It is connected to the past and the future, connects the details of our lives to make us a distinct entity from all what is around.
It is amazing how we, as society, have put our energies to heavy develop the left side of our brains. I would say: we are left-minded. Whenever we think about ourselves, we are just relying and focusing on our left side. We need to have good memory. We need to be good engineers, good winners and good at math. We need to be rational and have a deductive thinking, or better said: We are rational, cold-minded, and highly competitive individuals.
Anyway, there is no need to worry. In spite of the creation of an extremely left-sided society, there are changes coming to stage. Hundreds of people calling strikes around the world, hundreds of movements ranging from climate change or politics to even information technologies are inviting us to the so-called “new” Shareconomy, which is by the way, not new at all. Experts write papers and newspapers articles trying to define the borders of the new forms of collaboration. They try and try to describe and standardize these new forms of sharing knowledge and resources. They ask themselves with terror how companies are going to survive this new mindset. That is exactly the problem. They are facing this process as it was something new; they are analyzing it using their left side of the brain.
We are human beings; it is in our inner nature to collaborate and to share. Sharing our lives, food, love and belongings is as old as barter, even older than our history; because animals also share, which is indeed quite old. If anyone preaches that these movements are something new, i believe they are totally wrong and they should just have a different perspective, a more creative approach. We are perhaps, just bringing back to the center of our lives (including economy) what was lost. We just dug down to find Atlantis and we only found us.
Some questions arise after these considerations: if sharing was there and it has dwindled over the last 100, 200 or 500 years, how are we going to re-learn how to share? How are we going to open ourselves again to the right side of the brain? (did you notice that these questions were formulated by my left hemisphere?). Indeed the years to come are going to be fantastic, that is why I love 2013 and the present moment…
