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Help me expand on this amazing philosophical analogy?

Here's the analogy I came up with: Life is a lot like a wheel. The spokes are your love, your passions…your inspiration and muse. The rim is your earthly presence; what you do with your love. It’s a circle, and a never-ending cycle. It spins, presenting the good, the bad, the easy and the difficult, each in turn. Each phase brings life to the next. It’s all about balance, putting the hub dead center, with equal spaces and supports on all sides. This is what you must remember; this is what you can improve on. And remember too, that it is always…always turning. No matter what happens. Through tears, doubt, insult and injury and even death. It keeps turning. The question, then, isn’t so much about why there’s a wheel, what it means. The question—it’s more about where the wheel can take us; where you can take the wheel. So what might the road in this analogy represent? Or the actual vehicle....or maybe the spokes connecting one wheel to another? I just thought this was a pretty cool idea, worth elaborating on. THANKS! I was sort of getting at a reincarnation sort of thing, hence the "eternal rotation"....but I certainly see your point!

Public Comments

1. A wheel won't stop turning. Ultimately our life 'cycle' (pardon the pun) will stop turning. So in my opinion it's flawed. But forgetting that for a moment - You can take it anywhere, that's why the wheel was invented
2. The road is our environment. The nails on the road that will cause the tire to burst symbolize a brutal death. Excuse my cynical nature, it just needs a bit of realism but besides that it is good, I most admit.
3. Okay, I get it, I see it, I feel it, so huh...? What 'zackly do I get from knowing all this? Do I win something? Whaw? *burp*
4. The movement of the wheel is the time. The road the wheel has past is historical. If you say life is a lot like a wheel, for me, it is more like a vehicle, since vehicles have wheels. People make their own identity and it is up to them if they are going to make it a success through failure or simply a failure. An identity is the motion of life. It is the standard of life creating a history. The car is traveling and it leaves a certain trail. That trail is very historical because it is the route between the start and the end. The car is the identity, the trail is the developmental history which pertains to the past. The way car may pass is the future. The whole thing is called "Life". The vehicular mechanisms determine what kind of life a car may live. It has obstacles like narrow roads and rocky roads. The care may crash and that's death. The manufacturing of the car is a birth to a new life. The life of a car is analogous to a life of a human. Your analogy seems to be spiritual since it is eternal. Remember, in order to keep the wheel balance, it must have speed and the speed can symbolized with commitment, responsibility and risk. The faster the wheel gets, the more difficult it is to control. The speed maintains the balance, which is why you said it must keep on turning. But somehow, death will come once the wheel will no longer function due to flat tires or overused rubber, like what happens in race cars. :)