My life is the climate of my own eco(spirit)system, my thoughts are the weather. My outer world is the temperature, and my emotions are precipitation.
So what is the standard? Rain or shine? My happiness or sadness? Comedy or tragedy? Best of times of worst of times?
Not or, but and. The standard is both.
Yin and yang, not yin or yang.
It’s all relative any way.
Imagine a yin-yang symbol – black and white.
It’s just the gray dot in a bigger symbol. The homogeneity of grayscale appears as you zoom out…black and white, binarized, perfect contrast…checkerboards and zebra stripes and chevron patterns…they disappear into gray swirls and smoke.
The other dot in this bigger symbol is the rainbow. (Does it add to the metaphor to consider just visible light wavelengths? I don’t know, so I’ll put a pin here.) It’s probably pixelized like an old tv up close, iridescent when you zoom out. Analogous to the black and white side: pictures become an iridescent bubble.
So maybe this bigger yin-yang symbol – gray and color – is the humanly-visible dot in the next bigger symbol. The contrast is made of wavelengths outside this. Or maybe this is the flat dot, and the contrast is texture. Unsure.
Anyway, imagine every level of the symbol expands not just out but also down – a 3 dimensional yin-yang-collection now. A topographic map of humanity leading *from* an individual – note that this thought is nuanced from a typical map which leads *to* something. The boundary between an individual and the world is not existent – how many levels of the symbol encompasses just one individual? More than one, but less than all…that’s as specific as it gets.
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