Calvin And Hobbes was
never about hyperactivity and Hobbes himself was never a manifestation of
undiagnosed mania: He was manifestation of pure, unadulterated loneliness.
Loneliness is funny
thing because generally it has less to do with being alone and more to do wüth
no having other people around. That sounds paradoxical, but being alone and
being isolated from your pers are two differebt things.The former is a choice,
the latter a decree. In truth, it is even morecomplicated than that, as
loneliness can strike at any time, even when surrounded by people. That
niggling sense that maybe you dont belong is all it needs to gain a foothold.
For as much as brain
of child is growing and changing and maturing, for as many distractions as the
world provides to develping minds, kids aren’t stupid., particularly children
as highly sensitive and attuned to the world around them as Calvin.
Dissappearing into his world is coping mechanism for dealing with wprld that
seems to have little patience or place for him. His isolation breeds fantasy,
which breeds isolation, which does him no favors at school or at home. To be
lonely child in the world means creating your own fun, your own friends, your
own magic.
Calvin and Hobbes and
their Spaceman Spiff fantasies were well known. He uses his imagination that
way and he create a new best world for
himself. Calvin actually didn’t have trouble focusing on the world around him,
he had a trouble reconciling himself to he fact that the world aroumd him was such
a dissappointment. Calvin made it okay to be disheartened and disappointed by
life and normalized the inherent loneliness that childhood can bring. He was
there for us to show how we grew up and how we learned that things we were
capable of getting so much better or so much worse. Calvin was a lot of things,
just like every child. He was budding inventor, a gifted artist, enterprising
entrepreneur and a self- taught pundit. He was a good friend, an annoying
neighbor, clever and conniving, lonely and maybe a little hyperactive. But
whatever he was, he taught an entire generation of children that thougt sadness
and dissapointment and loneliness may come prepackaged in life, that all could
be weathered, so long as you had hope and a really good friend to see you
through.
Additionally to all
of these, it is a quite thing to sit down and reread comics of Calvin and
Hobbes as an adult after 30 years makes
us feel wierdly nostagic with warm and
familiar intelligent humour and jokes. We all wish to grow up and have more
friends, afraid of being wierd and to mesh with world and people We all see a
thrillingly obnoxious little helion having wild and enviable escapades with a
wisecracking tiger, you see a kid who is allby himself. And he is incredibly
lonely like all of us.
Honestly creator of
Calvin and Hobbes Bill Watterson has a point, The value of Calvin and Hobbes in it’s intricately constructed explosively creative and unique world,free from
the corrosive influence of advertising and merchandising. Maybe it wasn’t
preserved so rigorously, it would’nt remain so whimsical and pure.
As Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes one of the quotes tells us ;
“If people sat outside and looked at the stars
each night, I’ll bet they’d live a lot differently. When you look into
infinity, you realize that there are more important things than what people do
all day.”
There are more important things than age, social statuses, money; your soul is ageless, it doesn’t care for how important you think you are nor how much money you’ve got. Your soul cares for love and that’s all that should matter.
There are more important things than age, social statuses, money; your soul is ageless, it doesn’t care for how important you think you are nor how much money you’ve got. Your soul cares for love and that’s all that should matter.
GREENSEA
Hiç yorum yok:
Yorum Gönder