Creating Different Bubbles

I have a theory that we all create our own bubbles in which we live our lives. We seem to have the idea that some of our bubbles are all encompassing of life, but they aren't as much as we would like them to be. We all have our own bubbles, whether we are aware of it or not. They are created by the experiences we have, the choices we make and the places we want to keep ourselves.

Someone accused me of living my life in a bubble today, partially because I choose to not live a life similar to hers. During the year I live in the world of music because that is the program I am in. The summer takes my life to be a part of the L'arche community. These are both bubbles in their own way and I'm completely alright with that. I know that I have separate bubbles in my life and I know that they will change as I continue to live and be open to different experiences. I may not have drastically different experiences throughout my life but those are what I chose and the bubbles I am most comfortable in.

It is not valid to attack someone else's choices or to accuse them of living in the bubble with the assumption that you don't live in a similar situation. There are always bubbles in our lives. We are limited by what we have tried and what we have seen. There is no way to experience everything, to see all the paintings or listen to all the music. We cannot physically sample all the incredible things life has to offer, so we pick and choose what we can see. We create different bubbles for our worlds. We can choose to lock ourselves inside them or to leave them more open to allow more things to come through to us. It's our choice to see how different our bubbles will be, but we still live in them. Despite of how much we may not want to.