Landmarks and Your Health
Written by Joseph Hobbs
A little thing about landmarks: in a certain light they can be good for you. Think about them when you take a little walk out.
I mean, just take a look at some of these places. Old Market Square, Motorpoint Arena, the Robin Hood Statue by the Castle, Green’s Windmill.
These things were made to be beautiful. Each one of them was made to be seen; and seen by you. You specifically. You validate these things in part, and there’s an exchange between the architects, city planners, masons, carpenters, the people who built these things and the eyes that look at a photograph or see them up close. The history of a place, and the land has a great benefit for the people living within it. And consciously or not, people who built these things, the people who keep them too also have you in mind. You matter to them.
Landmarks are pieces of artwork that if anything are larger and more obvious than anything else. We underestimate them because they are constant. They don’t need advertising or fanfare, aside from when you unveil them perhaps. But that doesn’t matter. What does is that these gigantic pieces, these buildings, sculptures, natural formations or what have you are as artistic as a gallery, as a bit of sewing your Nan might of made. They have worth. And I don’t mean worth in money, but worth to the mind. They can benefit you to look at them. After all, that is why they were made. Beauty is a thing to enjoy. To uplift the spirits. And spirits were what was in mind when someone thought up the landmarks I’ve just described. They were intended in part to help you as well as fulfil their function. In their day, and in the future part of their purpose is to encourage the thought of what humanity is capable of. A small touch to help us up.
Now, this idea may be relevant to you now. It may be relevant to someone around you. Family. Friends. People you work with, or the audience and customers, really anyone around you in life. Some people need a helping hand. And part of these articles are finding ways to help lift us all up. One of these ways, I believe was these large pieces of art, made by people a lot smarter than I am. They recognised the value of placing art out in the open, how it was not just pretty to look at; but useful.
No matter how dark the sky or things inside of you, those landmarks and monuments will be there. You need to look up in more ways than one to properly see them. And my guess would be that a fair few of the people who build them struggled with their own anxieties. But like you, they faced what was troubling them. They carried on building great things. And humanity all flows together. Just as their work may help you, you never know how what you build affects the people around and after you.