Today, not hindered by a scientific backbone (I’ve studied a lot, and forgotten more), I decided all movement is circular, even though most of the time it does not look that way and it does not feel that way either.
My first thought after I made that decision was that big chunks of the concept of movement – the sheer process of being moved – escape us because the circles are simply too large. I likened this to the well-established ‘fact’ that humans are so small and the Earth is so large that our eyes cannot discern even a fraction of its curvature.
Then Google got in my way and I found out that, actually, we can DEDUCE the curvature – which led me to add some good ol’ thinkering into the equation.
To our grey cells deductions are like chocolate chip cookies – very welcome snacks after the savoury stews they are served at home, and the stale pre-cut sandwiches they mindlessly picks up in the canteen at school or in the office.
All too often, our culturally biased chip set interprets deductive reasoning as the process of breaking down the juicy concept it is munching on for further analysis, using knife and fork to dissect the notion so vigorously that afterwards, the poor thing cannot be recognized as food for thought.
And then the brain shoves the plate with shards of nastily mutilated concept away and says, not the slightest bit disgusted by its voracious act of desecration: “There is nothing there. I checked. Next!”
I was contemplating all this over lunch. When I had emptied my plate, it started moving. I felt my brain leap forward, eager to start hacking away at the little theory of circularity I had laid out so neatly on my inner plate, for clearly, this plate in the outer world exhibited nothing more than a seesaw motion. “Circularity, really?” my brain snorted.
There was no need to discipline him. Every time the wind moved the plate, my heart moved with it, until it reached a threshold, which forced me to capture the physical part of the motion. Thinkering a little more thru writing this post did the rest: the circle (flow-wind-plate-heart-hands-brain-flow) closed.