Instagram, Those Distant Beautiful Lands, and Captain Fantastic
It is known that around one and a half years after our birth, as our language skills develop, we begin to understand opposing concepts. However, even before words become tools for us, we start to learn this at a sensory level — encountering the first contradiction in life through the presence versus absence of our caregiver’s nurturing behaviors. When we interact with a small baby, we instinctively cover our face with our hands and "disappear" momentarily to create that joyful reaction, even though [...]