New view

So here’s the story. Some of you may already know about fractals. To those who aren’t familiar, let me introduce you.

This here is a Romanesco broccoli. Its definitely the strangest thing I’ve seen in my life, as far as produce goes. Out of lack of a better word, I refer to each spiraling cone radiating from the broccoli as a node. If you were to cut off any node, and examine it, you would come to find that it contains the pattern of the entire broccoli. If you want to, you can take a Closer Look. The whole pattern being contained inside a small detail is what makes a fractal a fractal.

Heres another example, created by Joe Zazulak.

I hope you take a good moment to take in the detail. I find fractals to be mesmerising and beautiful. You can do a google image search and come across millions that are just as amazing if not more so.

If I were to use the broccoli as a metaphor for where I’m at right now, I feel like I’ve been focusing on a little node of my self, and that recently I’ve come to recognize it for what it is. Just a piece that’s contained in a much greater overarching whole. Now I am perceving the whole.

I thought I’d already made that switch before, but really what I mistook for the whole broccoli was actually just another slightly larger node. My perspective was so small that I didn’t quite notice that there was more to the whole I thought I was perceiving all of.

Of course, I thought I had done that before even that… but that time it was a really teeny tiny node I was starting from….

But enough with the irnoy.

When I considered myself to be a musician, it was how i intepreted my whole being. Now I realize it was something I contained within my being.

I used to think that happiness or sadness or sometimes anger defined me. Now I recognize that they are emotions that I possess, that I have them and I am not them.

I used to think that what I am is Noah, now I realize that what I am includes the identity of Noah. But it also trasncends that identity.

I plan on writing more blogs. Its been a while because I’ve gone through so many personal changes since I stepped outside of my country of origin and got to immerse myself in the international community while traveling.

Its taken me a while to incorporate all that I’ve learned, and now I feel ready to start sharing with the world.

I expect that my words should reflect the growth I’ve experienced. Stay tuned.