The Spin of the Ball

Hi. I thought I’d say hi this time. For a while I wondered why we say it. Then I worked with a colleague who didn’t say it. He just walked past me each day, awkwardly, and I thought to myself, “That’s why you say hi.” You don’t really have to say “hi”, or “how are you?” just some kind of noise so we can hear your voice and detect how you are feeling. It helps to determine where the conversation can go, or if it can go. I realise some people cannot speak but I’m sure they have their own way of indicating what they are up for.

Politics: I really have no idea. Any topic where someone wants to prove themselves right and someone else wrong is not very interesting to me. I like topics where we both might be right, or there is no right. There is only what seems to be, and how we perceive it.

Children: In Lift-Off, there are animated scenes accompanied by audio recordings of children having philosophical discussions. About free will, dreams, death, etc. I find it refreshing because they are kids and they know that they don’t know anything. They just say their ideas and listen to the others. I remember being a kid and having discussions about the universe with my best friend M. We would get pretty deep and we would always end up saying stuff like “well, that’s just what I think” or “yeah, it’s really weird.” It was never a debate. Just wondering.

What happened to wonder? Do you still do it? Or did you leave it behind?

Perhaps the mystery of the universe is that we cannot know the mystery of the universe. God only knows. And how would She know? How would She even know She is God? Did someone tell Her? How do they know?

I want to end this game of hide and seek. My hiding place is comfortable but I’m starting to get scared. Please find me. I’m covered in dirt.