The ethereal nature of the bubble should serve to remind us of our own impermanence. Life would be much cleaner if we all excepted this analogy and lived lightly…
o, I’ve just spotted Bessy, Ben and a few others…in that picture…
‘Lived lightly’ - I thought that you were a Nietzschean when it came to such matters? Surely he’d argue that life is a cycle between the light and heavy (if you like Bill n Ted metaphors, which I do)?
Sure - life and experience - cut both ways…but, as Nietzsche says in his introduction in ‘Twilight of the Idols’
‘To stay cheerful when invovled in a gloomy and exceedingly responsible business is no inconsiderable art: yet what could be more necessary than cheerfulness?’
the bubbles where a reminder to stay cheerful
midts the sure brutal continutation of the life thing…