The Sum of All Encounters.
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some random pictures Ive taken-the earth: a wonderful thing to ‘reflect.’
I think often about mirrors… Everything we do is a mirror image or act of something that makes up our environment. We go to work, hang out with friends, go to school; and when we come home we give a mirrored reflection to someone of the details of our day. We hang out with a certain crowd and we begin to dress and talk like them unknowingly. Studies show from our weight, our attitudes, to our ideologies; we become what we are surrounded by. I awoke this morning in need of a fresh perspective- half asleep I flipped open the newest National Geographic and a quote jumped out at me: ‘We Humans Are the Sum of Our Encounters With Others.’ It was exactly what I needed to hear. Our lives are the perfect sum (or perfect mirror) of all the fragments of everyone we have ever met, whether their presence had great affect or small. It even transcends to every environment and every experience we have ever had. Everything is a mirror: The planets that spin around the Sun do so in the same mathematical (mass to distance to velocity) ratios as electrons around a nucleus. The Earth (made of 72% water) gives your body (made of 72% water) life. You are the perfect Sum (mirrored reflection) of everything you have ever seen or done, and every day- every new experience makes you more powerful and more great. Sometimes we may think we are weak, but really we’re just failing to see how powerful we really are… I don’t know, it helped me get through my day…
The earth expanding right hand and left hand,
The picture alive, every part in its best light. -whitman
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