Is ADD a circle?

Plato believed the soul was a circle.
Carl Jung....'circumambulating' "the Self"
The Lion King...."The circle of LIFE"

What else....mandalas, "gods eyes", a communion host.....a yo yo.



I feel like I am spinning in circles much of the time, do you?



YOu come all this way just to realize that when you think you have
arrived you have to prepare yourself to start over again.


Each time around the view gets a liiiiittle bit wider.
You go up, but you go in circles through the journey.

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THE surprise is that ADD is a spiral, right?



I use the spiral as an image in my paintings. You will find it in the moon, the sky, the fields..... and in the eye of a fish. You will find it in the gut or the breast of a figure study. I always wondered why I did that spiral thing.


Tell me for real.......is ADD a circle or a spiral?
Is it a journey?





~gourmet~

Tell me for real.......is ADD a circle or a spiral?
Is it a journey?



All three for me

For me I think that ADD is a circle on the extreamly bad months..cause I feel like I'm stuck and will never be like my "normal" friends I feel like I'm stupid and that I'm to childish that people are expecting to much from me and not geting anything at all.

But then I also think it's a Spiral, not one going down but up...that I have to keep making half circles but I know I'll make it and that there is hope for me to gain the respect of my fellow co-workers or even the respect of myself...realizing I'm okay with my ADD

Then mostly I think its a Journy, like a fairy tale and I get to live it. I get to make a story about myself and I'm the only one that can control what I feel/think about who I am as a person with ADD. That no matter what I was made to be who I am for a reason and a purpose, and even though I have NO idea as to why I am the way I am right now...I know that someday I'll find out and it will be amazing!! :o

The journey of circling and spiraling.
While everyone else around you just goes in a straight line.

Thank YOu! Somebody knows and understands!

ADD is the furthest thing from a straight line.
And it is ultimately a journey of the spirit.

I get so tired of some of the debates ....debates with so many
confusing words and the hashing out of issues. What ADD is, what it's ultimate purpose is and the the narrowing of the reasons it exists.
The words are all there with the intention of educating us.

But....

All you need is simple language.
Something as unique to our world as the circle.

Circle.
No beginning, no ending.
Then the journey begins somewhere within and the path is a spiral. Continuously moving...moving up from the center of the self.

We are living it.

The spiral actually makes life fun and worth living. We should not manipulate it. We should be excited about our adventure.

I am cranky because my house is cluttered and I can't find anything. Then I have to remember to center myself within the circle and get myself back on the path.

If the soul is a circle, how could ADD be anything other than a circle?
The circle gently spirals into a journey to self discovery.
The great thing is , the fairy tale that flygurl spoke of never has to end.

Because as stori said, ADD is anything but a straight line.


I wish that more of you share with us your "stori" - your journey and where your path is taking you, where you have been and how you manage to rise from the center.


~gourmet~

There is a song that says that

''Life is an adventure not a destination''

I have learned to take nothing for granted in this life. And i dont waste time on stupid frivolous things.
I enjoy every minutes of what's good and when it's over i go for the next thing.

I hope it never stop...man i would get bored pretty fast :rolleyes: :p :)

There is a song with the lyrincs "All my Life's in circles..." I can not recall who write it. It is from the 60's.

Me :D

All my life's a circle,
Sunrise and sundown.
Moon rolls through the night time,
Til day break comes around.
All my life's a circle,
Still I wonder why?
Seasons coming round again,
Years keep rolling by.

Feels like I've been here before,
Can't remember when.
And I've got this funny feeling,
We'll all be together again.
No staight lines make up my life,
All my road ahve bends.
No clear cut beginnings,
So far no dead ends...

Pete Seeger
one of my absolute favourites.

I think we would love to think our life's "journey" is linear. Beginning and ending.

But we stumble in fits and starts on our way through the spiraling circle.
Or maybe I should say tumble instead of "stumble".

Like a or ballerina we stumble before we dance in circles.
And like a gymnast, we tumble before we learn the balancing beam.

I don't know about you, but I have fallen so many times...
only to be picked back up by my own stubborness.

Ups and downs and steeeeep learning curves.
And all the while I am carrying my kindergarten report card.

"Often unfocused and fidgety. Tendancy to stare dreamily into space. Sidetracked and scattered. STUBBORN! Too sensitive for her own good; feelings easily hurt

HOWEVER....plays nicely with others and a joy to teach."

Sounds like ADD to me.