The moral story from a painting
A farmer plowing on the field, ships taking sail, a Sheppard keeping order to his sheep, and a distance prosperous city that looks well managed, that’s might be our general first impression from this painting “The fall of Icarus” and not to deny one might get confused by the meaning of the title until you look carefully
But behind this calm view, in the far distance of the painting it’s a disaster for another man. This small figure is based on ancient mythology about Daedalus and his son, Icarus, which on the story they were imprisoned on the island of Crete. Longing for freedom Daedalus had decided to create wings so they can fly away. While Daedalus put the wings on his son, he warned him to not flew too near the sun since the wax holding his wings together will be melted from the heat if it’s too close. But as we can guess he ngelected his father’s warning then ambitiously he flew high above then plunged into the sea and drowned. Although it’s a tragic end for Icarus and his father it’s not the main focus of this painting, our eyes were too mesmerized by the farmer and the ships.
The small Icarus feet is showing us how little the world cares about your suffering. One reason for our unhappiness which is thinking about what the world around us thinks about us, our reputation, and wondering what kind of judgment they threw on our backs when we fail to fly, and undeniably we will fall into the dark vicious waves at some point in our life. It obsesses us, woken up at night just to wondering what other people’s perspectives looks like, believing that we could not manage to live without everyone’s approval, thus we gave up our freedom because of people who don’t care about us, and even worse those who we don’t even like.
Take a look back again to this gigantic painting, we won’t wonder why not so many people see this tragedy. This is the world
While this is your mind, that’s how insignificant our problem is. While you are drowning, the farmer is in hurry, the sailor is calculating the winds, and the Sheppard counting his sheep. People are never against you or supporting you, they are for themselves and already drowning in their own world.
In conclusion, don’t worry, no one cares.
