Ahmad Farid
Unleashing ThoughtsArchive for August, 2008
A purposeless life
During any football match each member chases a piece of rubber called the ball and trying to let it pass throw a rectangular area called the goal. Aiming at achieving that they exert a lot of effort and people enjoy watching them trying to do so.
Now imagine while you were watching some match, someone came from behind and removed the bars & the nets of the two goals. What will be your reaction? Will you keep watching? Will the players keep playing and struggling? What will you think about the players if they went on playing with no goal ? Let’s say that they are playing for enjoyment. Will they keep passing the ball forever? And you know what, whatever they do, the ball will go out at sometime. Simply because everywhere is out as long as the goal is absent.
Now after you’ve got the ball at your feet. Do you know where you are going to shoot? Or you will only keep running with the ball till you get out of the field achieving nothing?
Circles
Build up that image in your mind and imagine it clearly. The life of every individual on earth can be represented as a circle whose radius elongates by time. The area of this circle represents the experience, knowledge gained and time lived by that person. Intersection between one or more circles represents a certain type of relationship between them. For instance, you will find your circle intersecting with your friends at university or school and that the area of the overlap will be larger than the overlap with your friends at work in case you haven’t known them for long time. And here’s your brother’s circle intersects with yours and your life partner’s as he gets in touch with both of you. Lots of circles will be intersecting at a certain area like area of work for example but it will be quite small, on the other hand only a few circles will share a large area with you which represents people closest to you like your life partner, your best friend or a close member of the family.
Overlapping won’t be only in case of long term relationships. Just you going to buy something from the grocer’s or having your hair cut at the barbers’. So overlapping is any interaction between you and another individual no matter how long it takes.
Unfortunately due to difference in way of thinking, education, standard of life, age, experience and lots of factors of life conflicts arise. Some people are not flexible or adaptable enough to be able to intersect with other circles without causing troubles to themselves or others. So you’ll either expand your area of intersection or stay isolated. Live together or die alone.
I was thinking about the top two intersections. The first in terms of area and first in terms of number of circles meeting at the same point. The first one I guess it can be your life partner who you will be living with for the rest of your life. For the second one, I think it will be for the greatest number of people doing the same thing and having the same thought at the same instance. I think a picture will do a better job in that case. You’d better see it at full size.
