{"id":16369,"date":"2022-07-17T16:38:51","date_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/?p=16369"},"modified":"2022-07-17T16:38:51","modified_gmt":"2022-07-17T20:38:51","slug":"the-fog-travelers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=16369","title":{"rendered":"The Fog Travelers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"rightbox\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WandererSeaFog.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WandererSeaFog-236x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"236\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WandererSeaFog-236x300.jpg 236w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WandererSeaFog-200x254.jpg 200w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WandererSeaFog-90x114.jpg 90w, https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/WandererSeaFog.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 236px) 100vw, 236px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>There is an episode in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Neverending_Story\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neverending Story<\/a> about people who sail an ocean of fog. They steer their ship by a collective chant and their collective will. They don&#8217;t have names nor do they ever do anything as individuals. Bastian feels attracted to this life at first, because he had become the strongest and best in everything &mdash; thus he felt very lonely.<\/p>\n<p>But then he witnesses the sudden disappearance of certain crew members on the ship &mdash; they are taken by a giant crow. Nobody is interested in the missing people, the remaining crew members don&#8217;t even notice that people are missing! He starts feeling uneasy and realizes that what he is looking for is not losing himself in anonymity, but rather the desire of being recognized and loved for who he is. He then leaves the people of fog travelers to look for that love.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m mentioning this, because sometimes I get the feeling that no matter how brilliant and intelligent people are, there is a tremendous fear of saying something &#8220;wrong&#8221;, not as a simple mistake, but to reveal a thought that comes from somewhere other than the source of the chants of the fog travelers. Something beyond the fog, where you don&#8217;t just wander around in other people&#8217;s thoughts and deal with, or ignore, what &#8220;happens&#8221;, but rather create a thought that breathes away the fog.<\/p>\n<p>This clinging to the fog may be the only way for the fog travelers, because their survival depends on their collective will to navigate the fog. But you know I was in love with &#8220;Bastian&#8221; as a girl and I did understand his desire to move beyond what everybody else was &#8220;singing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=lHytjEj7B9g]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This clinging to the fog may be the only way for the fog travelers, because their survival depends on their collective will to navigate the fog. <span class=\"continue-reading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/?p=16369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":235,"featured_media":16373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/235"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16369"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16375,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16369\/revisions\/16375"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gornahoor.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}