Monday, July 31, 2006

Circles Of Life

Life should be ordered by circles. A big one in the middle, medium ones around that big one, and smaller ones surrounding those. Kind of like an ovum with all the follicles around it. The centre of the ovum should be where the essence of life is. The wall of it should be what's protecting this essence. And the follicles are parts of life that come and go.

The essence of my life is God and my faith.

The wall is my family, protecting me from society's harms and keeping my faith safe.
My closer friends remind me of who I am.

The follicles are events that happen in life, people you meet along the way that are not part of your being. They add to life's experience, enrich you perhaps, but are not very essential.

Some of our natures are such that we need to have lots of follicles in our lives. To keep us busy and occupied, to keep our lives exciting and bustling. But sometimes, follicles grow too much, and crowd till we can barely see the essence of our life. We lose focus, and lose sight of what matters to us.

At these points of my life, I call the follicles that crowd around 'red herrings'. We are missiles in the ocean of life chasing after ships, our targets. Sometimes we hit on red herrings instead and lose our target -- our dreams, passion, family and friends.

Time to push away some follicles, get the red herrings out of sight, and go for the essence of life.

5.moon.sky was here at 12:30 am