I Wave, You Wave — We’re ALL Waving

Tuesday, February 5, 2008 at 03:05pm by David Askaripour in Philosophy

waving at you How many activities involve balls? We play various games such as: volleyball, soccer, tennis, bowling, lacrosse, marbles, dodge-ball, hand-ball, etc.. And we have fun with these spherical objects, right? At a club, there�s a disco-ball that lights up the room and projects fun and random shapes of light across the floor. When someone goes out, we tell them to �have a ball.� Meaning, to have a good time and enjoy yourself. Rappers say: �I�m balling yo!� and �that�s dude is balling!� Meaning, �I�m awesome� and �that person is very wealthy and is having a great time.� We say �let�s roll.� Meaning, let�s go! The earth is a ball. Our eyes see little balls called photons which our brains interpret as images � what we see. We are made up of balls, molecules. Maybe everything is a ball. Balls are fun because they are round and they roll, they move. They are smooth and flow. Squares, on the other hand, don�t roll around. They like to stay fixed and motionless. Maybe we can think in balls and squares as well. If we think in terms of spheres, maybe our thoughts will have curves and they can roll and flow just as the basketball does � not attached to anything in particular and always moving. Maybe we can think in squares as well � cementing our thoughts and placing them into little storage boxes in our minds � never freeing them to move and grow and mostly importantly, to have fun. Or perhaps neither balls or squares really exist and instead, everything is a wave. And when you think, you�re waving at me. When you act, you�re waving at the universe. And everything is waving right back at you. Maybe that�s all anyone or anything is ever, fundamentally, doing � waving.