Time Flies

"If the plane goes down, damn
I'll remember where the love was found"

I don't know how many out there have heard of/are following this Air France story? (Read about it on BBC). A large Air France plane leaves Rio de Janeiro bound for Paris. Somewhere over the ocean it hits a huge thunderstorm and dissappears from radar. Some pieces of the destroyed plane have been found (across 56 miles of ocean), but nothing to give a hint about the crash nor survivors. No bodies. They just vanished. And there was never a crash landing so they speculate that the plane broke apart completely while still in the air. That's just not normal for a large jet, even in a thunderstorm. Alien abduction, anyone?

Edit a couple hours later: the debris they found was not actually from the Air France Airbus that vanished.

Needless to say this is.. I can't even define how it makes me feel. But if you hang out with me this week, you might get a "how much you mean to me" speech. Or, at least I'm thinking it.. very loudly.

On a less tragic note, I've been thinking a lot this week about Time. Is it linear or does it move in a circular pattern? I've read two very interesting books lately arguing for the latter.
Are we here for just a short second, or are we able to come back again in spirit, beginning another circle? And if Time does repeat itself, are we able to hold on to the Wisdom and experience we previously gained (even if it's latent knowledge)? I do hope so. Humans are creatures of habit, generally, following circular patterns throughout our lifetimes. Even if your habit is something as erratic as traveling, never with set schedule, never with a plan.. you stay in that pattern (and once you're used to it you can never go back!). So if circles define our individual lives, it's only plausible that the Universal whole of all our lives also operates in circles.
Another thought (thanks to Beth for discussing this one!): with every circle that we traverse, do we join in the evolutionary scheme? Are we getting more advanced with each lifetime that we spend? And I don't mean more advanced as in technology or things that we build, I mean more with our inner energies and intellect. If the human race was made in the likeness of God, could we be evolving to be more like Him? And if God is simply the sum of all the positive energy flowing in the Universe, will we connect better with spirituality and Nature in the future? I hope so on this one, too.

The few people who do follow this, you mean the world to me and I love you.
I love you I love you I love you.