The Ripple Effect

To commemorate 100 years at my company, the Firm is encouraging its employees to serve 100 volunteer hours and reach 100,000 hours company-wide. Today I did 2 hours with my roommate, putting together hundreds of care packages to send to Foster students for Valentine's Day. What a great surprise it will be for them! Hopefully this will continue the ripple effect of kindness all over the world. It felt great to be part of it and I'm looking forward to giving more back at future volunteer events!

It's been over a week now since I've heard from him. Will I see or hear from him again? I guess only the Universe knows now. Our paths have been crossing since the day he was born, so if that's been no coincidence, then it will likely happen again.

Meanwhile, all I can do is send out my ripples of good vibes and love, knowing that it will eventually reach him somehow, someday. I am thankful for the time I have spent with him. Just like the movie my roommate & I watched last night, Labor Day, maybe we aren't meant to be together right now.

Society has brainwashed us to believe that Life has to take a predefined path and have a certain order. From birth, we learn how to walk, talk, and read. Then we go to school, get a job, get married, buy a house, start a family, and the cycle starts over. Forbid we do any of these out of order.

Even dating has been ruined and de-personalized by technology. Remember getting a simple letter from someone with two checkboxes and a question, "Will you go out with me? Please check yes or no." Things were so much simpler then.

Now you have to create a profile, fill out a personality survey, browse thru a catalog of potentials, send out a request, hope for a response, and only then can you answer more questions, maybe exchange a few messages before even the chance of hearing the other person's voice or seeing their face in person. Also, thanks to the paradox of choice, people are less likely to commit because of the possibility that there might be someone else, "better", out there. I loathe online dating.

In reality, you can't define When, How, or Who to love. The only thing you can trust is Why. I love because there is no other feeling like it in the world. I will continue to send out my love, knowing that when it is returned to me, it will have grown from the ripple into a wave. And I will let it wash over me completely.

I'd much rather have my soulmate be overflowing with their love for me that they can't contain it, than to splash in a little puddle of love. Besides no one likes to surf when it's flat. Surf's up?!