No life line

I think we forget from time to time that live is not a linear thing. It is not a straight line from birth, to school, to career, to death. Life and learning is a circular thing, with all lives events polka dotted around in a random order. Mind tells us it is linear, but you know in your core it is not.

The feeling of failure comes from the expectation that life is linear when it is not. That is where a lot of fear comes from, not knowing what will happen next, what your next step should be. If life was linear, as mind wants us to believe, the next step would be crystal clear, clearly visible, for all to see, no doubt possible and easy.

But as it is not linear and it is not clear what our next step should be, we just take a step, a well thought through step or a random one or stand still. The feeling of falling and failing comes from judging one outcome of a step taken being better or worse than another. Our mind has us running in circles thinking life is one straight line. Weighing and judging thinking back and forth and back again.

Because mind firmly beliefs life is linear it cannot see the circles each step makes, like raindrops on a lake. We reincarnate every second of the day or like someone else once said it: “what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly”