Flat earth or Wheel? Which Came First not really which are you?

 Do You Feel Like You are Just Spinning Your Wheels?

So starting tomorrow pay attention to how many times you see something with wheels on it.  Let’s include bikes, trikes, strollers, cars, trucks, trains, planes, and well of course suitcases which are a relatively new wheeled object.  Did we overlook skateboards, rollerblades, roller skates, and those funky shoes with the wheelie the heels?  Yep count them too and then think about the invention of the wheel.  

According to an AI source the wheel as we know it was “invented in about 4,000 BCE.  However, in some ways it is hard to believe that prehistoric—don’t we really mean before  we wrote stuff down?)  Certainly the first people on the planet had histories?  They couldn’t have mastered living in the moment all the time—right?  Okay back to the wheel.. or the grindstone now there’s a wheel.  It seems reasonable that some folks used an old log to help move heavy things by sitting the heavy thing on the log and pushing?  Okay so they didn’t draw a sketch of it in their cave.  They were busy hunting huge buffalo and running from grizzly bears and didn’t have time to scrape stick figures on the cave with berry based paint every night.  Plus circles are hard to draw—you don’t think so grab an etch-sketch  and give it a whirl.  

Alright let’s say the wheel gets invented  sometime back in Summary or Egypt or china or someplace that gets credit for all the ancient stuff… and all of the sudden one of the clans in the tribe has a thing they can use to move stuff and these people soon find they can build a cart for hauling people.  Can you imagine the stir that created?  Little boys sitting at the mouth of their caves and huts see their neighboring clans rolling past and there you have it the first time in history one. Family started comparing their wheels with someone else’s and now it’s Ford Vs. Chevy, and all the rest.  It wasn’t long and we were starting to use wheels for all types of things.  However, what if we hadn’t decided to trust the wheel?  How would planes take off or land?  Instead of saying “It’s like learning to ride a bike” would we be saying “It’s like learning to hop around with a stick between our legs?Would we pack far smaller suitcases—well maybe, however, where would we be going I mean everything  would be by horse or on foot?  Oh and how boring would office chairs be?  

What’s the SekkingPeace and Joy connection?  It seems like there are some choices in life and they include using the wheel to do different things in different ways knowing it won’t always work just like wheels that were made of wood or stone.  I mean what if you had some wooden wheels and parked near a beaver dam? Oh and until the first part of the 20th century wheels weren’t filled with air so that created some challenges.  Anyway the point is the wheel has changed and we have adapted and changes what we do with it.   But it is not only choosing to use something with wheels, it choosing to be a wheel.  

Seeking peace and joy, especially in a community, can mean trying to help others move their heavy stuff in life over obstacles and over the course of a long. Journey.  We can choose to hold things and people up while we stay grounded.  We can choose to carry far more weight than we might be on our own and risk getting a nail and becoming flat, ruptured,  and getting thrown on a pile to be tossed into a grinder or worse onto a fire.  Yet if you make the choice to be a wheel you might get admired and taken places all around the world and might make little children very happy as they get their first whiff of mobility-based freedom.  

Maybe the point here is that we all might have a fuller life if sometimes we use the wheel and sometimes we become the wheel and when we need a moment to relax and regroup then maybe we should  just be sitting’ here watching’ the wheels go round and round.