Baleni / Packing

An interesting idea came to my mind while I was packing (big backpack, small bacpkack, notebook bag - all pretty stuffed): maybe it is God's punishment for man's expansiveness. To show the mankind that the space is limited and that it is really not wise to gather too many things. Maybe there is another connection behind: being less expansive we would stay at our village, don't travel (constantly) somewhere and would need maximally a back-basket to put the made shoes to and carry them some 15 kilometers to market in the closest city (as my grandgrandfather did).
But one Czech songwriter and singer is right when saying: "Only the stones and people are brave enough to rive off the hill and in the world constantly changing change what hasn't been changed yet."


V prubehu baleni (velky a maly batoh a taska na notebook) vsech veci na cestu zpet me napadlo, ze baleni je Bozi trest za lidskou rozpinavost. Aby lidskemu druhu bylo ukazano, ze prostor je omezeny a ze chtit mit spoustu toho ci onoho neni uplne rozumne. Tahle souvislost ma asi jeste hlubsi prvek: nebyt tak rozpinavi a chtivi, sedeli bychom stale nekde na vesnici, nikam necestovali a maximalne bychom potrebovali tak nusi, do ktere bychom jednou za cas dali usite boty a nesli je 15 kilometru polnimi cestami do mesta na trh (jak to delal muj prapraded). Ale jak uz zpival Pavel Dobes: "...jen lide a balvany maji tu odvahu, urvat se ze skaly a padat dolu ze svahu a na svete, ktery se furt meni, prekonat, co prekonano neni..."