Why I love parks - A place of inspiration and humanness
ARTICLES & ESSAYS
Ethan Ha
7/15/20254 min read


No wonder people get inspired by nature. No wonder Beethoven had long walks around the countryside and got inspirations for the next masterpiece, and no wonder Leonardo and Van Gogh got their plans and ideas on what to paint next from actual experiences of immersing in contemplation in nature.
For me personally, nature can make me inspired and rebooted with energy. It is a feeling of 포만감 and complete joy you can't explain with words.
I sometimes do this before I start a big journey to remind myself of the work ethic and discipline as I get to thoughts of, "if god has provided me with the physical ability and mind to enjoy and perceive the shining water, sunshine emitting plants and leaves, and the blue sky, what is any reason I should not try my best for my own benefit and the surrounding society?"
Walking around the lake or park, in short, reminds me how grateful I am and how I have no excuses to not give the effort and work as a positive social impact back to the world, whether it is something small, a small step of achieving a bigger social impact, or something related to my relationships and loved ones.
Also, I come here after the hard work that was enjoyable yet determined to find an unexplainably serene comfort. It gives me relaxation that allows me to heal and refill with energy
When walking along this beautiful place that is so specifically designed for many people to share experiences, you get to hear how many friends and couples talk about their own very diverse stories and happenings, and how they take photos for a memory and experience, and seeing some jog along the pathway for striving to reach their dreams and pursue discipline.
This is truly a place where you get inspired and joyful and realize how this is the best place for finding humanness, resilience and improvement as a unique human being that can feel these emotions and immerse into contemplations, get inspired by it and utilize it to an idea with creativity, but most importantly, with purpose intention and "human process" of converting experience to a suddenly sparked initiative and work
Again, here it highlights the fact that human society will and is going to favor processes and values of the journey, whether we know or didn't actively know, and whether we experience it very individually and personally through our times of deep self-reflections and thoughts, or whether it is by watching other people's stories through biographies, etc.
That is why I think it is a very psychologically beneficial and widely applicable for stressed or burned out individuals in the entire world, and something leisurely that can aid improvement, movement and gradual fostering of humanness as a campaign for human evolution of coevolution
By the way, this additionally reminds me how life is 90 percent about one's own happiness, not what others think of one. One must do what you enjoy and feel proud of, as it is his or her experience and as most time is spent without people's views and interventions, so we must value and treat them preciously with happiness so that you don't spend time regretfully
For me, here again, I got inspired by a new idea regarding human AI coevolution. One example of how I could better articulate it is with a park-related analogy that elaborates the need for a benchmark system such as the coevolution, and the necessity for preventing and dodging uniquely human, yet detrimental flaws and minds.
Walking along the park, i looked at the biggest building of South Korea. It's imposing presence looked enormous especially right under it, and I wondered if humans were able to build this with planning to material gathering and building considering all the safety, ethics and the refinements and decoration, design and structure obeying every minor laws of physics and engineering, meticulous organization, and Management and Teamwork, why would humans not be able to control and regulate AI safely and peacefully?
The main and one and only blockage is simply the human greed and mind that shows the pernicious sides, very, sometimes too, often. And thus the alignment of the visions must be somewhat compulsory. What I mean by that is people were able to achieve these works with the condition or prerequisite that they received money for it, and are part of a group that necessitates them to contribute to this mega project as a mandatory mission. Similarly, emulating how people work for the buildings finished and safe look *** know that we wont make any aligned and efficient and productive progress if we didn't have a plan on how the finished part and methodologies and processes and collaboration or teamwork must look like for the building -> for which we need coevolutionary vision systems*** AI progress must be aligned with one goal or purpose of coevolution which makes global parts and places, compelled and motivated to work. Most optimally yet challengingly, it will be great if, just like building workers, architects, and engineers did it for the monetary reward, we will work and take action for our own benefit, which is the innovative, hopeful and responsibly designed future.
But of course, money and optimal outcome for the greater good or community are a big difference. What it therefore requires is training and cultivation of affection and necessity towards long-term thinking, a responsible mindset for the next generations and the world we live in, and discovery of joy in making a social impact that is philanthropic or selfless.
With this small motivation/encouragement, a collective final goal of human AI coevolution, and the process corresponding to it in terms of its methodology, such as how humanness mistakes be cultivated and how peace must be established, how excessive competition stimulated by greed should be diminished, We are going to successfully lead and endure ourselves to the outcome just like the mega building or skyscraper. Without making big mistakes or slowing it down or leading it to a collapse or break through bad cooperation within human teams, with people trying to take over another person's role and make others fail, implying a failure of one small component in the building. Which will, nevertheless, result in the failure of the entirety.
July 15th 2025