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In A Ball
In A Ball
I strive.
We all strive on this little, blue planet thinking that we are somehow in control.
A dot in the universe.
A universe, perhaps one of many?
We may not control the entire entity but we at least like to think that we control
our little planet.
So we make our lists and we make our laws and our values
and we keep all of these schedules for we are in control!
We know what we are doing.
Quite simply, that is the way that it is and the way that it is going to be.
She sets plates on the table.
The food smells delicious!
Lasagna?
Ah. Lasagna.
He walks in through the sliding glass door from the garden.
He is very proud of his garden and he should be
for he is in control!
He kisses his wife.
They hold each other, smiling, watching the baby play with her
ball on the floor.
It is a clear ball so we can see inside it.
They watch as the baby bumps it and rolls it across the carpeted floor.
“Dinner's ready!” the older daughter says going back into the kitchen.
The father watches his baby daughter play with her ball.
A ball.
A blue ball within the ball within another ball perhaps within another and so on.
This is our universe.
Our reality.
A ball within a ball within a ball, etc.
She rolls the ball but we cannot tell.
A possibility within a possibility of possibilities.
She rolls us.
Are we in control? Is she? Is she in another ball under the control of another as well?
Is she God? Our God?
Or better, her reality, the family's reality sitting at their table eating their wonderful lasagna
all being within another ball within a ball.
Still we strive because we want to be in control!
We think we are in control!
We HAVE to be in control!
We make our lists.
We keep our schedules because it is all that we know how to do.
We have to feel that we are in charge,
that we know what we are doing and where we are going.
That is how it is going to be and how it MUST be!
Somewhere, wherever they are, they eat dinner and they watch the baby
girl as she plays with her ball.
She plays with her ball
and all we can do is roll with the situation.
--msl2022
I strive.
We all strive on this little, blue planet thinking that we are somehow in control.
A dot in the universe.
A universe, perhaps one of many?
We may not control the entire entity but we at least like to think that we control
our little planet.
So we make our lists and we make our laws and our values
and we keep all of these schedules for we are in control!
We know what we are doing.
Quite simply, that is the way that it is and the way that it is going to be.
She sets plates on the table.
The food smells delicious!
Lasagna?
Ah. Lasagna.
He walks in through the sliding glass door from the garden.
He is very proud of his garden and he should be
for he is in control!
He kisses his wife.
They hold each other, smiling, watching the baby play with her
ball on the floor.
It is a clear ball so we can see inside it.
They watch as the baby bumps it and rolls it across the carpeted floor.
“Dinner's ready!” the older daughter says going back into the kitchen.
The father watches his baby daughter play with her ball.
A ball.
A blue ball within the ball within another ball perhaps within another and so on.
This is our universe.
Our reality.
A ball within a ball within a ball, etc.
She rolls the ball but we cannot tell.
A possibility within a possibility of possibilities.
She rolls us.
Are we in control? Is she? Is she in another ball under the control of another as well?
Is she God? Our God?
Or better, her reality, the family's reality sitting at their table eating their wonderful lasagna
all being within another ball within a ball.
Still we strive because we want to be in control!
We think we are in control!
We HAVE to be in control!
We make our lists.
We keep our schedules because it is all that we know how to do.
We have to feel that we are in charge,
that we know what we are doing and where we are going.
That is how it is going to be and how it MUST be!
Somewhere, wherever they are, they eat dinner and they watch the baby
girl as she plays with her ball.
She plays with her ball
and all we can do is roll with the situation.
--msl2022
Published 9th Aug 2022
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