What better scene than a studio in a house with light filtering through the windows, illuminating a sturdy old chair with velvet cushions, white roses on the shelf next to the armchair. The books of the past placed on the bookshelf. What better scene than this armchair in sunlight in this house to reveal to us what light academia is.
What a happy time it is for light academia. Gone are the dinosaurs who insist it is for the white and privileged minority. In this moment, light academia is for everyone. Dressing nicely is for everyone. Reading is for everyone.
I am happy to have developed my own understanding of myself to recognize that most of the time I am a light academic. Even when others try to drag me into the darkness, for unknown and personal reasons, I am still as much resting, sunlight shining down on me, in a recliner in a room with wide windows, as I ever was. I enjoy resting and I am actually a kind person. I realize when others are in pain and I don't hold it against them that sometimes they "drag me down."
Optimism may not always be the perfect solution, but it allows us to see the world through rose-tinted glasses. Sometimes rose-tinted glasses are all we need to allow ourselves to get through viewing some sore realities around us.
The happiest times of my life have been when I have been able to ignore the glaring imperfection inseparable from my daily life's adventures. Do you kill the dreary silence or ignore it? Boredom flits through our minds like a songbird teetering on a fencepost until it falls off and suddenly decides it is a flying machine. Our minds catch a drift and move onto another topic. Shambles of boredom remain. Sometimes I think that our mind's boredom is like the rolling barrels in funhouses. Never stable, always challenging us to develop ourselves and make it through the tunnel of boredom to the light on the other side.
Perhaps the correct question comes down to our behaviors and habits in our day to day life. What is the difference between someone with too much free time and someone with a grudge. Maybe a single thin line separates us from becoming someone with too much free time and then someone with a grudge. Luigi Mangione had a grudge that became action. Someone with too much free time would not do such a thing? Luigi did such a thing due to his grudge against UHC. What is the difference between boredom and bloodlust? Maybe Luigi was bored one day when he thought up his crime. The grudge may just be his own mind's proclivities that found root in a common enemy, but boredom, the need for something more than what he has in the present moment. In his case perhaps a boredom born of deep pain, led him to his crime.
Luigi Mangione revealed to us his deep seated belief that healthcare should be for everyone. Many people were forced to acknowledge the ephemeral nature of being a healthcare dinosaur in a time when the American people are slowly developing a semblance of acceptance toward healthcare not being entirely privatized. The reality may shock us, that dissatisfaction and the need to escape our current reality are pivotal components of change. Pain is a symptom of a larger issue and boredom is a symptom of our inability to stay present in a happy reality. Both can eat away at our lives until we are just miserable. Somehow, it all comes full circle. Like Light Academia once belonged to the privileged few, and then equality was socially distributed, healthcare will one day be for all. At least, we can hope so.
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