Sometimes I feel like I am spinning around in circles, and to no avail. If you think about it, from the point that you start spinning to the point that you stop you really have accomplished nothing. You have effectively made a complete circle to end exactly where you started. And even if you don’t spin all the way around and you stop prematurely, what have you accomplished you are still standing essentially in the same spot. I think this is what life feels like sometimes and I think this is what frustrates me the most, at which point in the rotation do we feel satisfaction, at which point do we as human beings find purpose or meaning. I have only one thing of real value in my life and that is time, but to the spinning human even that seems to loose some worth. Maybe that is the key, just to keep spinning faster and faster until you get so dizzy you can’t make sense of your surroundings, and maybe this is the meaning of life.
Well, this is one of your more depressing writings, at least for me to read. Life may form a circle, but it’s not realy complete until we die and then who really knows for sure that it’s completed then. Life is a journey forward into new experiences and new meaning and even some pain and happiness which allow us to hopefully grow. We can either see the problem of life as challenges or as problems. For a long time I saw them as challenges. Then I saw them as problems and I suppose you could say I completed the circle because I now see them a challenges again. But it’s not the completion of a circle, but another place along a circle that never closes until our death. I felt that this philosophy was summarized in the coach’s words from One Tree Hill that is in my blog. I hope you had a chance to read it. Dad
This is not related to this blog, but to your About Me. I just reread it and really like the way you expressed it. I may have to change mine and maybe be a little more philosophical.