“To force the pendulum’s swing is to interrupt its natural flow, rather than move to its rhythm and know what’s in our control.”
Untitled (Then/This) | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
It matters most how we think, as thought predicts our actions, life is predicated on behavior, on how we react to situations before us. To force the pendulum’s swing is to interrupt its natural flow, rather than move to its rhythm and know what’s in our control. We are aware of what’s before us, what we’ve left and what we now have. Within this time line are our reactions, how we buffer, pivot and proceed: navigating as life as we know it, unfolds.
“We cannot control what does not exist, only what we have in the hand and in the mind.”
Untitled (Crux) | Carl Barnett Design/Studio
The future is made from possibilities, exists as a bubble of thought and the unknown: theories, emotions and hope. We cannot control what does not exist, only what we have in the hand and in the mind. Worry, as I have found, over inflates the bubble, bursting from too much thought. Worry is an action, similar to a physical push. To think or to say push, one feels push, and then a tendency to proceed further. This has a forward affect, what we say now, echoes to the ballooning future.
“A ripple starts with a stones throw, from a hand, a thought to throw.”
I think often on how we live, how our collective lives affect the hurling future and the way we live now. We each have a place within the building of tomorrow, every negative and every positive has a hand, every push and tenuous pull. There is no isolated action, no odd man out, everything and everyone has its place. A ripple starts with a stones throw, from a hand, a thought to throw.