My little bubble

Dear diary,

   I had that aha moment again. So I remembered I HAVE to write to you. You know how every day we see dozens of new faces (or maybe old faces we don't remember) and we still focus on our little bubble full with desires, needs and emotions and we forget all about the presence of others? It's funny how one random day you just "wake up" realizing you're Not alone in the world and that you're actually Always surrounded by people but somehow, you can't explain how, you're so caught up in your own web that you feel you're living on your own planet. And that day, when you wake up and you look around you see thousands of other webs that interconnect with yours. And when you lift your eyes you see other eyes just as confused as yours. Hmm... so many people, so many life stories, so many webs:) 

   I remember that once, when I was younger I wished I had the power to just look a person in the eyes and know their entire life. But now I know that would be a too heavy burden to bear. Maybe our brain is focused on our own life because it has to preserve it and it knows how to. What good would it do if we constantly noticed the others and we compared ourselves to them? We do that anyhow, but just paying too much attention would be destructive, I think, especially since we probably won't see that person again. 

   So in the end, ignorance truly is bliss. But that doesn't mean we should walk watching our shoes. There's a whole world outside the bubble and maybe one day we'll want to "wake up" and realize there are people out there whose webs can influence us for the better... and we can focus on them. 

   The world beyond our little bubble is a wonderful place and we should never cease to be amazed. 

Awake,

D.

In or out

   No, this won't be another post about the Advent Calendar. Everything is working just fine with it, everybody's happy and we all feel Christmas more close to our hearts than ever. Today I want to talk about discovering both the bliss of feeling detached and the utter discomfort of feeling too involved in a situation. 

   Life often takes us by surprise and we have no idea where that is gonna go but what's important is knowing that we weren't born ready. We learned it on the way. And if we don't know how to detach ourselves from the problem, we need to keep going until we do. It's not going to be a revelation and many times it feels like it's impossible, but with the help of rational friends, movies and books it can be done. 

   These days I saw a lot of worried people around me, people who got so involved in a little thing that it began to grow and grow that in the end it affected everybody around them. I was detached. And it felt good. But then, even though I was proud of feeling detached in that situation, I got so involved in a little, unimportant thing... until I realized it happened and it made me think. We often believe we can control everything. Thing is... we don't! Not everything. So we should just let it be and not judge it when it happens. Go with the flow and see where it leads us. Learn to detach ourselves from unimportant things and only involve in the big ones. And even then, learn where we can help and step back when we can't.

   This isn't the "ignorance is bliss" thingie, it's about knowing when to step in and out. Knowing there's a bigger picture we have to see and train ourselves to see that instead of focusing on one tiny detail on the map.
   So, are you in or out?