Everyone likes bubbles. As a kid I loved them. And now as an adult still I love them. Soap bubbles are fascinating creation of nature, for that matter any bubble. These are little insights which are gathered over the years looking at soap bubbles.
I remember when I was a little boy, making soap bubbles was one of my favorite sports. Time was different then, and I did not see balloons very often. Putting some water into a coconut shell, and Then I had to steal some soap from the kitchen. Often, scraping off if it is a new soap bar, so my mother would not see that part of the soap is missing. And it took some time to dissolve it. With a straw or using an empty ballpoint pen, we used to blow bubbles. Sometimes hallow straw of a papaw leaf was used to blow bigger bubbles. It was difficult to blow them when there was too much wind. But for a child, that was the best thing. To see a bubble float in the air, often slowly drifting away. That was the only thing we did with bubbles. Blow them as much bigger and watch them drift slowly in air. And when it starts to sink due to its minimal mass, when there is not enough wind, tried hard to push them back in the air, using hands to generate uplifting thrust.
Life of a soap bubble.
These bubbles they had a very short life. But it was a fascinating one. Often in the beginning, they were just transparent, reflecting the surrounding, on its surface, and slowly they begin change their colors. First to a pink and green, slowly turning into an orange and red, ending up in a shade of blue. Given enough time on air, every bubble came to grey colorless state, before start thinning out so much at some point, they looked like they started to wrinkle, suddenly there would be a pop, and it would become droplets of soap and fall back on earth. During the lifetime of a bubble, the environment will be reflected upon its surface, except at the last second of it where all the colors fades.
That was not the only encounter with bubbles in my life. I have even seen great "Bubble show's" done by Bubble experts. And bigger and bigger bubbles which can even use to cover a human being in a magic show. And it did not end in there. Bubbles will be back in life in whatever the form in the future as well, and I am sure of it. How about your bubble story? I am sure, there will be interesting stories.
Discussion.
For the discussion, I would like to summaries the characteristics of the bubble I saw.
Bubbles, reflect the environment throughout their life, except at the last moment.
Bubbles have a short life span, and they are colorless at both ends of their live.
If there is no constant effort, bubbles will crash early on the ground, and even with the effort they are doomed from the start.
Now I think you have an idea where I am heading with the story of bubbles. I will make it easy. If soap bubble represents your life, you will see some similarity.
If the color of the bubble represents the information, it will show that we are colorless when we are a child due to lack of experience and at the end of life due to dementia.
Throughout the course of the lifetime, we also have to make a constant effort to keep it floating. We have to keep eating, keep drinking and keep swallowing medication, keep travelling and keep our relationships.
We reflect our environment, or more importantly we have our own model of the world with us. Except for its difference fundamentally it's the same material.
I would end the bubble story here with insights about the waves of the sea. You would see, the truth about the nature is everywhere if you are careful to listen in silence.
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