Wounded Ripples 2

Imagine a pebble being dropped into a pool of water. From an initial state of calm, the pebble causes ripples on the surface of the water. There is a philosophical saying that actions have consequences. These consequences can have far-reaching effects just like the ripples that spread out from the small pebble dropped into water. A study of physics would tell us that the weight of the pebble forcing its way through the water thereby causes a “disturbance” in the water’s equilibrium. The change from the state of equilibrium causes oscillation in the body of water depressed by the weight of the pebble as it pushes through, which in turn causes the train of ripples.

The Wounded Ripples series of short stories was written with the same theory in mind. The first book was the point of impact between the pebble and the water. This second book reflects the ripples caused by that impact and the pebble pushing its way through the water. So this second book takes the reader back further away from the point of impact â€" prequel. However, the story in present time continues ahead just as the pebble continues to push through. Why? Because time waits for no one. The next book/s would be where the waves of ripples decrease in amplitude and things would eventually go back to its initial state â€" equilibrium. And the pebble? It stopped as it hits the bottom of the pool.

We live in a world governed by laws of physics where everything is right before us; we can touch them, see them or feel them with our bodily senses. But what if our interactions go beyond what is right in front of us in that point in time? Maybe time is really “bendable” like the ripples on water. I guess the answer to that question is to know within ourselves if we had ever been hit by “ripples” at one point or another in our lives. The people in this story were. But the bigger question is, were they “wounded” ripples?