bubbles pt. 2?

I'm back on bubbles. I can't help it. They just visually explain life so well for me...

So, I was thinking this morning how there are so many people we see everyday, yet have no memory of or with whom we have no interaction. And that got me thinking about bubbles. I'm sure this analogy could work with various amounts of things, but apparently I'm partial to the magic of bubbles. I guess that's the 5 year old in me.

anyway.

There are so many people around us and we're so disconnected, yet we impact each other's worlds all of the time. Our bubbles may never meld into one, and we may never even blend bubbles for a little bit and then tear apart, but we affect each other. Think about when bubbles float. If I am floating here, you can't. If your bubble is growing in size, you are inevetibly taking up space that I may have desired to be. So even though we have no personal relationship, you just existing and living life in your bubble is affecting mine. Like I said earlier, this illustration can be demonstrated by many other objects, but there is something unique about this demonstration with bubbles: we can connect. Your bubble may be preventing me from being somewhere by myself, but that's not to say I cannot join in your world. It's just that do we want to? I don't know about you, but melding bubbles for me is not always the easiest of things. In some ways it is, in the fun ways. The sharing of stories, hobbies, interests, but not when it gets down to the nitty gritty situations. Not when being part of your bubble requires me to be there for you when life gets hard, or when you need to borrow money because things in your world aren't going as well. That's when sometimes we feel like our bubbles are popping and we're losing control. Which we are, because we've chosen to let someone else into our world, and we've in turn stepped into theirs.

Staying in your own bubble is possible. It's probably the most convenient and easy actually. But while you feel like you're in control, you're actually the one being bumped around by the other bubbles joining. I hope this is making sense. I wish I could show a video, but I'll stick for hoping this is not just rambling.

It's a risk to join bubbles and worlds. But without this risk you choose to live being bumped around by other people. They're essentially controlling where you can and cannot be. But to be apart of something, apart of a bigger world, to invite people into your life, and to learn how to genuinely care for other people... well, I think that sounds kind of nice.