Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Restraint

I saw this exhibit at a museum in San Francisco.  It was a room with the following sign out front..



When you walked in, it was a video of a machine used to sort pills into bottles at a factory.


A sign read the following....

RESTRAINT: A measure or condition that keeps someone or something under control or within limits; the action of keeping someone under control.

Humans have displayed great ingenuity in creating devices to restrain behavior.  But restraints don't have to be physical; they can also be legal, social, and psychological.  

We restrain our own thoughts, emotions, and desires as well as our actions.  How do you feel restrained - and why?

How do you restrain yourself?

The answers of some museum-goers hung with clothes pins along strings.  Some were very profound.  Take a minute and think of your answer.....

~L~