Six Degrees of Separation?

The world is round and I fail to see how 360 degrees is considered a complete circle. Clearly, people have many different directions and 360, or even 720 for that matter, simply just doesn't cut it.

Everyone is so different from each other that you can actually line them up end-to-end at the Earth's diameter and form a shoulder-to-shoulder chain around its circumference and you would have millions, if not billions of people, forming a circle of sorts around. The Earth is no perfect circle, I give you that, but why should that stop us from getting together to figures out how many 'degrees' of separation the Earth can handle, us standing on water aside.

Can you imagine a micro-thin string of connecting wire between each one of us and the core of the Earth? How many would there be? That is the true distance measured with a person being a degree, and it's a lot more than 360 I can assure you of that!

Six degrees of separation would translate to roughly seven feet between one and the other. I take this quite literally, because my mind's eye created quite an insane graphic as I imagined billions of us floating through the universe with the Earth as the only connection. Like an appliance plugged in to a power socket, must we draw power from this central entity? Can't we just be, well, free?

Counting Stars

It takes a lot or very little to make someone happy. And there are times when a lot of small or medium-sized things add up and make a huge difference. That's quite cliché yes, but how many actually realise when that happens to them? If you do take the time to count the stars, you'll begin to realise just how many of them there are.

When a month goes by where you inevitably realise just what all it is that you have been blessed with, and then handed even more once-dreams and the responsibilities which come with them; it's a feeling which combines the essence of joy, satisfaction, contentment, excitement and gratitude. As I turn another page, nay,a chapter, I find myself looking just a little bit further, with a view set to encompass not just plain sight, but the bits I would hope to uncover as well. Whatever the possibilities ahead, I want to at least know of their existence. Mario's 1-up mushroom never had a visible hiding place; you would just have to jump free and bump your head into somewhere you thought there was absolutely nothing.

In the last six or seven weeks, the people I've met, the places I've seen, the experiences I've enjoyed and the absolute awesomeness of the sets of wheels I've been given a shot at have been astounding. I thank my stars, my heavens or insert word of choice here that these steps were mine to take, sample and enjoy.

It's not everyday you make new friends and drive 3, 4, 6 and 8-cylinder engined creations in the span of a few hours. Glorious indeed.

And now, contrary to my last post. I find out first hand that some singles are better off than many pairs.

"I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars." ~Og Mandino (Thank you, Cressida.)