Which Way is Up

Sometimes I think out loud, sometimes I think too much, sometimes I think silly, sometimes I think that I just don’t know what to think. I personally live in a bubble right now. I get up, go to work, eat, sleep, go to work, pay bills, and on occasion socialize. But here’s the thing. I like my bubble, and I hate my bubble. I want to be social, and I want to do things, but I really don’t like a lot of what’s “out there”. Many people are just dumb, too annoying to be around. Many things to too are expensive, as is everything now days. Everything is so crazy in the world it seems and I’m losing direction of which way is up. So, I stay in my bubble and then I get frustrated that I’m in my bubble. I often think, if things were only different but I really have no idea what that would really look like. If I had money and no bills and all my needs were met would life take on a different aura? Is it about money, is it about being social? To a partial degree, I think. We are social creatures for one and having debt, albeit it’s the American way, I believe causes huge amounts of stress. And well, along with stress is a plethora of other ailments.

When I was a child life seemed so much easier. I’m not completely sure that it was but I do know that it was different, way different than how children are living now. As a child we didn’t have all the obligations and worries of an adult. We just played. We just drank out of the hose, jumped the bike, made forts, had sleep overs. School was safe and actually fun. But although it was different and maybe simpler in its own way, there were still issues. We had world issues, we had state issues, we had family issues. What has drastically changed is the availability at our fingertips to have access to so much more information. The computer age and technology changed life in a drastic fashion. Just as when gun powder was introduced and how it affected the world so has a computer become common place, even in your own pocket. But I believe that even with all this new knowledge, a new way of living, we have to a great deal lost ourselves. I know I have. I love what technology can and does bring, but I’m also well aware of the traps and pitfalls. AI for example is so frightening to me that I don’t even really know how to articulate it. We are losing ourselves; we are losing our nature, and I am losing which way is right or left, and which way is down or up. But I may have a helpful understanding.

I’m a scuba diver and scuba is an amazing experience. It can be incredibly scary for some people and exhilarating for others. If you understand the rules, it’s safe. If you break the rules, it is potentially very dangerous and life threatening. Isn’t that life to an extent. Now I’m an out of the box thinker so I tend to push the boundaries to some degree. I’m always trying to share that there may be more than one way to look at a situation. That life shouldn’t be lived with blinders on, that there are other paths that can be taken in order to experience the fullness of the journey. But in order to do that, one must understand where they are. Are you trapped in a bubble? Are you trapped on the same Ol wheel that goes round and round. Are you trapped by belief systems, whatever they may be, that actually hold you in bondage when you don’t even realize the restraints are holding you. Do you know which way is truly up? I have to take my own advice and listen to myself over and over. But I can assure you I can help. First, slow down, look at me, I got you, you’re ok. Breathe, because we all need to breathe. And all you have to do now is follow the bubbles. That is the way up.