The Web Theory

I used the web metaphor in my earliest blog, when it was just on Facebook. I was talking about choices and how they branch out in a neverending web. I'm using the web metaphor again, and choices too. But not our choices.

I'm talking about the choices made by people that influence us even though we may not like the outcome. This web ensnares us. These choices flow outward and entangle, making the web I'm talking about. It's happened for atleast my entire life so far, and I don't expect it's different for anyone else. Or that it'll stop, ever. People make choices that affect us, good or bad. We're stuck with the consequences, even though we normally don't have a say in these choices.

Here's an example. Given where I live, I'm not exposed to many cultures, except for a select few. So given this, I don't always have the best background and experiences to pull from when I do meet someone from a different culture, any of them. This is something that I'm really hoping to change at some point. But, my point is, I didn't decide this. I didn't decide to live here, or whatever. I just do, and the consequences of it are on me. You can apply this to many different things.

It's like I've got 80,000 spiders constantly building ONE web, and it's around me. I have no doubt that some of these spiders are of my own making, but whether they're mine or not, they're creating a web, or if you like, a wall, that holds me back from connecting with people as much as I could.