{"id":3855,"date":"2011-01-13T14:43:01","date_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:13:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indiauncut.com\/?p=3751"},"modified":"2011-01-13T14:43:01","modified_gmt":"2011-01-13T09:13:01","slug":"miyamotos-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/miyamotos-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyamoto\u2019s Fish"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nick Paumgarten’s fantastic profile of Shigeru Miyamoto<\/a> in The New Yorker<\/i> has this wonderful quote by Miyamoto about his childhood:<\/p>\n

\n

I can still recall the kind of sensation I had when I was in a small river, and I was searching with my hands beneath a rock, and something hit my finger, and I noticed it was a fish. That’s something that I just can’t express in words. It’s such an unusual situation. I wish that children nowadays could have similar experiences, but it’s not very easy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think Miyamoto’s lament holds true not just for kids but for all of us. We are desensitized and apathetic, and there is no sense of wonder in our lives anymore. How does one recapture it? I don’t think going back to nature and escaping from the urban grind is an answer in itself. Those of us who do that do it as an anaesthetic or a balm. There has to be something more.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you noticed a fish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick Paumgarten’s fantastic profile of Shigeru Miyamoto<\/a> in The New Yorker<\/i> has this wonderful quote by Miyamoto about his childhood:<\/p>\n

\n

I can still recall the kind of sensation I had when I was in a small river, and I was searching with my hands beneath a rock, and something hit my finger, and I noticed it was a fish. That’s something that I just can’t express in words. It’s such an unusual situation. I wish that children nowadays could have similar experiences, but it’s not very easy.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

I think Miyamoto’s lament holds true not just for kids but for all of us. We are desensitized and apathetic, and there is no sense of wonder in our lives anymore. How does one recapture it? I don’t think going back to nature and escaping from the urban grind is an answer in itself. Those of us who do that do it as an anaesthetic or a balm. There has to be something more.<\/p>\n

When was the last time you noticed a fish?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,13,22,23],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nMiyamoto\u2019s Fish - India Uncut<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/indiauncut.com\/miyamotos-fish\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Miyamoto\u2019s Fish - India Uncut\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Nick Paumgarten’s fantastic profile of Shigeru Miyamoto in The New Yorker has this wonderful quote by Miyamoto about his childhood: I can still recall the kind of sensation I had when I was in a small river, and I was searching with my hands beneath a rock, and something hit my finger, and I noticed it was a fish. 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