Realm of Reality- Bubbles

My favorite thing to write and think about are these little, odd, patterns that I come across everyday- in the behavior of people around me, in the way I prioritize things in auto-pilot, etc. What came to my mind today, while sitting in a class about De Bono's 'Six Thinking Hats', was how we create these invisible bubbles around us for comfort, comprehension and sometimes just by default when we're in a 'phase'. 


For example, babies have basic needs and their bubbles are tiny. Them and food, them and their toy, them and their pretty little bed. When we reach school and have crushes, our bubble exists around us and the 'crushed'. The rest of the world just doesn't exist. There is no bigger picture. All that matters is the two of you. Wherever in class he/she is sitting, is where all your concentration is focussed at. 


Once you grow up, the bubble gets bigger, and bigger and bigger. Friends and family enter, society enters, work enters and then comes life and all its glorious mini-bubbles. The second we leave school, things just go on getting macro-er. Today, I found my mind wandering, thinking of relationships, my career, the way I think, the way businessed function, countries are governed and so on, when the professor spoke of the various kind of hats. I'm pretty sure, if this was school, or if I had a crush on someone in class, all the hats and everything they stood for, would relate back to that person and my relationship with him, or even if in college (graduation, that is) it would've made me think of my friends or how we function as a group or maybe even life after college- still super micro. 


The key idea being, that as we grow up, our bubbles should naturally get larger so that we can make decisions keeping EVERYTHING in mind. This may make life more complex but such is evolution. If the bubble isn't growing, there's something wrong.If you can't relate to a hat, if your thoughts don't come in the way of 'important' stuff, if your mind doesn't wander, if you aren't constantly realizing something new about yourself, be it good or bad, you need to blow some air into your bubble.


I'm optimistic, yellow hat-ted, consistent, indecisive, attached, averse to loneliness and drastic change, treasure relationships.. and the list gets longer every single day. My bubble is an okay size, I feel. Not as big as some people around me, but big enough for me and my thoughts. Even though, some of my friends dream of changing the world, and I look up to them, I only dream of changing my own and making it bright and shiny :)