Vibrations

The ripple effect is the more appropriate name, I think. It is how the happiness experienced by a single person in a group impacts the others and gets them to react too. There are many instances of the ripple effect in all our lives - many of which we have sourced. The ripple effect is also important in many of our lives - it gives us new connections and it also tells us how our existing connections are. I think we are all totally agreed when I say that if one can be as happy as me when I tell him something good that has happened to me, I can say that we are well bonded and we can totally experience what the other person is feeling.

Vibrations play a key role in helping us know ourselves in the face of others and in knowing how we stand with others. And without them, we would never understand who and how we really are. Think of a still puddle into which a stone is dropped. The puddle really gets the vibe from the stone dropping into it and the ripples that arise cause smaller ripples upon hitting upon obstacles and in a short while, there is a frenzy on the water surface. This is very similar to how the vibrations in our life act and behave too.

Animals are best at receiving vibrations from us and reacting to them. I wonder if anyone with a pet has ever not noticed that. Dogs and cats - they react with us. When we feel too low, the dog or the cat stay with us and give us a much needed vent to flush out all the sadness and badness in us. The same happens when we are angry, excited or in rupture. It is a wonder how short sighted we may be before the pets. At times, they are more human and we, more animal.

BFF - Best Friend Forever - is not as happening these days. I wonder if my BFF even understands me. I like so many things, so many people. He says I should like some things better and not like some things as much as I do. I wonder if he even knows me for who and what I really am and not as someone he knows in his mind - I mean, he can expect me to do things for him, but I cannot be what he thinks of me, fat chance of that! And he is my only BFF, so I cannot brush what he says ever so lightly - this is where the strain has crept in. We barely see each other these days, because we work like 700 km away from each other. And our conversations on the phone are not all high and peppy as they used to be, with all the excitement drained, simply because he wants me to be a person I do not see myself as. And we take turns going to our parents' places, so we miss each other always, unless there is a festival that weekend. Despite that, we keep a straight face whenever we happen before the other and we totally appreciate things one does for the other. It takes a while to see there is a strain on us, really. Sometimes we sidestep some topics in our conversations to prevent silent time on the phone - it feels awkward and awful. It is even more grotesque when the topic is pulled up - we will speak at the same time and wait for the other to speak too, at the same time. So, either the both of us would speak at once or the both of us would be silent at once. Too bad the both of us are having this in us. I sometimes wish the hindrances be removed and I respond quite well when he says something.

But then. We are humans. We define our selves and our boundaries and we play within them. How much more wonderful my life would have been if my accomplices, BFF, my friends and I have always been selfless and caring as the pets?