Emerson

I’ve never been really good at dissecting a passage, but I feel like I might can relate to this one some. I feel like maybe Emerson was trying to say that he felt like he was disappearing into the world. He is just a “transparent eyeball,” walking around. He is seeing everything but not interacting with anything. Everything is distancing from him and he is just watching as it happens. Then it seems as if he stops caring about the people and the streets where they gather. He seems to only care about the scenery around him. He takes in all of the beauty of it and he seems to be learning from it. I think something that I found strange about the passage or maybe something that I did not quite understand is this sentence, “I am part or particle of God.” Did he mean something deeper than just a particle of God. I am a Christian so I do believe we are all of God, but is that what he meant by that? Or did he mean something bigger and deeper than that. I cannot think of a way to dissect that one. Have I had any moments that are similar to Emersons? Of course, I think everyone has. I can relate to being so lost in the world that I just melt away into the scenery around me. We become people watchers and just watch everyone around us and their behaviors. In high school psychology we had an assignment where we had to go to the mall and then sit and watch everyone walking around and their behaviors. Some people noticed we were looking at everyone, but most people were too preoccupied on their phones. I can relate in another way at the end of the passage where he is staring into the beautiful horizon. I look when I am at the beach and I get up early just to go watch the sunrise above the ocean and in that moment I am lost. I am lost for words at how beautiful the world that our God made truly is.