For those who doesn't like WALKING IN CIRCLES

"Have you ever heard the old saying that People who get lost tend to Walk in Circles?

Jan L. Souman, a German psychologist, wanted to determine scientifically if this was true. He took participants of an experiment to a large forest area and to the Sahara desert {...} They had no compass or any other device. Instructions to them were simple: walk in a straight line in the direction indicated.

Dr. Souman later described what happened. '[Some] of them walked {...}[with no reference points in view]. … [They] all walked in circles, with [several] of them repeatedly crossing their own path without noticing it.'

Without visible landmarks, human beings tend to walk in circles."*

In life something similar happens. Everyone has walked or walks in circles at one point or another. Most of the time we don't realize we are doing it, but usually, with time, we realize something is just not right.

Some times, when someone stays steady in a peaceful place, somehow instead of peace, an uncomfortable feeling comes, and as a natural reaction our minds try to change something in order to improve that. By this point the world has provided many ways in order to ignore those feelings, some times it's music, social relations, other times it's legal or illegal drugs. Some others find something to spend their time on, but finally the result it's always the same. The further we go the most we realize it doesn't work.

What at some point seemed to be the piece we were missing, now in our hands is just a future part of our personal pile, of "this wasn't the answer". An emptiness keep taking place, and ironically, the bigger it gets, the heavier our soul feels.

To stop walking in circles, we have to walk strait, not find something to do while you are in the eternal "round" trip.

Many times young people is the less perceptive, but usually older walkers on life (or anyone who puts down their pride), come to understand that sin, is something real. That passed mistakes make the soul heavy, that is more than just a feeling and that walking ignoring it doesn't lessen the effects of it.

The advantage on this is that we don't have to wait to realize that those paths doesn't work. We can start now in the self inventory of repentance and see what doesn't work.

From all the things you are doing ask yourself the question:

Where will it lead? Ponder for a minute and change the ones that will keep you from walking strait.

God, our father, has provided a way so we can walk strait, and we can overcome all the difficulties in this world. It doesn't mean life will be without tough times, but it definitely can be much better when we decide to follow His perfect and inspire advice.

He knows the way, and He understood the importance to make it know unto us, so He sent His only begotten Son to show us know the best path, and then He expressed:

"Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, 

and I will give you rest. 


Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me;

for I am meek and lowly in heart: 

and ye shall find rest unto your souls."

Matthew 11:28-29

Find more about how in the next post.

*See Jan L. Souman and others "Walking strait into circles," current Biology, vol. 19 (Sept. 19, 2009), 1538-1542.