The circles that create You! A non-linear story.

We are born – learn to walk and talk – go to school – we get a job – perhaps ger merried – and a house, car, and kids.
We then start to feel fulfilled and get ready to start to die – grey hair appears – pension age – body aches – and we are happy if we live above the age of average.
Worse is, we get told this is the way to go almost as soon as we are born or at least old enough to comprehend the linear way of living our western society lives by.

Oh ye, and along this line, right about when school starts, we also start to compare!

Because when you live a linear life, you are also constructed for comparison.
That results in the way so many of us constantly look over our shoulders to see where along the line the rest of us have fulfilled what and how much.

Are you a success or a failure?? Read the fucking metrics!

Me? I believe our lives consist of circles, a couple of thousand or so.
Some circles intervene with each other, kind of like soap bubbles that drift away from or into each other.

Every interest forms its own of these circles or bubbles. Every interaction, and relationship as well, and so on.
The most beautiful part is when those circles are shared by others around us.
As when we form a music band, theatre group, or a relationship where we depend on each other. Others are entirely our own, like the way I personally like to hug trees. I do it entirely by myself and most of the time keep it to myself.

This way of looking at life makes comparison totally impossible!
Yours and my constellation of circles are totally unique and can never ever be compared.
Some might have an obsession with cars and have a huuuge car bubble and interaction with other car enthusiasts bubbles. Whilst others might jump around, trying out endless hobbies and creating hundreds of small bubbles that drift off in all kinds of directions.

So if we could just start to imagine looking at life this way, I believe we would realize that instead of comparing and all running in one direction, we would instead appreciate the diversity of our own small universes and in turn also others.

_{This is my side of the story, some of my thoughts about the big puzzle we call life.
What are yours?}

Love / Pedro