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RE: A Carousel
I knew you intended it as a Steem analogy.
I considered it as a metaphor for the whole of life, and teared up when I read the line:
"Every so often the music stops and and we unload a group of passengers."
But then I read the line "I get off the horse and look to see if there is a better ride," and breathed a sigh of relief. If it's a metaphor for life, at least it's not one that encompasses death, just the circles on which we spin our wheels, from one to the next.
Of course, Steem doesn't have to be like a carousel. It can be like the sea. We can take a bracing dip in the water, then when tired out, we can leave the waves and rest, someplace quiet. And we can come back and swim another day, whenever we feel like it. :)
Exactly, I moved away from the steem metaphor and moved on to life. I'm not ready to get off, but many do. And the chain keeps moving on.
You take me back to when I saw Fleetwood Mac live, and they performed Stevie Nicks' song, "The Chain:"
"And if you don't love me now
You will never love me again
I can still hear you saying
You would never break the chain
Chains keep us together, running through the shadows."
The two things that get me about that song are:-
(1) the crraaazzzy guitar riff. It gives life to hear it!;
(2) The last line, that implies that despite the roughest chain breaks, there is still something about our connection to our chains (for Stevie Nicks, it was her continued friendship with her ex), that keeps them alive for us and in us.
I don't think we will ever be completely disconnected from the Steem chain, in our hearts, at the very least. :)