so the idea of personal relationships as ponds was in my head this morn as I rolled along 880 to an exciting day of web production. it doesn’t require that you absorb people’s sensabilities but it seems as though it is unavoidable. like here you go, my wife is crazy, as she should be, here are the initiators:
1. she marrried me
2. she is on her 29th week of pregnancy
3. she is on her like 20th week of bedrest
4. she is philipino – just kidding (lu knows i’m not) but i am (not really)
5. she has a 4 pound chihuahua that takes up half of a king size bed.
so now i am crazy, now i cannot sleep, now my stomach is constantly uncomfortable. i sing songs that make no sense, argue with my dog, grow angry when she (the dog) does not explain herself.
second example of emapthy as demonstrative rea behavior;
my friend lu and my cousin paulie went to vegas, ostensibly for leisure (in actuality it was a masquerade for a wild sex romp) and had a luke warm time according to lu because of spoil sports and overcrowding-holidays- and basically it was cool; but.
I assumed i would feel happy becuase they wanted me to go and i couldn’t,
but i didn’t, i felt bad they hadn’t had a better time.
i know not an extreme emotional ripple but one none the less . . .
ok much thanks to jill from the office well not that one but mine. i gave her a hard time cause i caught her grabbing cake plates with no invitation for the rea. she was quickly rebuffed as you can imagine. but this morn lo and behold she arrived with a new cake for me. thanks!
she and I have had a lil emo bond ever since the layoffs, nothing literal, but we used to mess/joke with a lot of the same people, and they were downsized and since then we have been just checking on each other sort of in a aloof but interested kind of casual way.
anyway so i have been thinking on the ripple deal for a little while now.
ever since i went to the adobe masters invitational last april
(well not the last but the one before that)
and i sat down at lunch with one of the creators of java.
and he started to tell me about this group who he is on the board of that measures randomness through the passing of certain elements through a machine that records the pattern.
now the majority of the time the pattern is almost completely random. but right before major global events the randomness starts to degrade and patterns start to develop and things become predictable. element wise, then bam!
they have all these machines all over the world and they measure randomness and patterns and the connect this guy made was that we are all are connected emotionally and we can feel this general sense of each other and we are the randomness and we are the pattern and we form our reality.
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