The Four Bubbles of Life

This may sound clickbaity, but it is the most comprehensive theory of life I have ever seen and considered.

It probably isn’t completely new, but the corollaries are absolutely mindblowing and life changing.

Here’s a visualising image:

The axiom is the following:

Any activity or aspect of life can be catalogued as being a subset of one, or multiple, of the following four aspects: work, leisure, health or love.

I invite you to prove the aforementioned axiom wrong through one, or multiple counter-examples. I would love to adapt and advance this theoretical model.

I would like to introduce a concept that should help in expressing a few things that I have in mind, and hopefully explain some of the pains that many of us go through in our life.

The definition of “life-efficient activity”:

An activity in one’s life is “life-efficient” if it belongs to an overlap of multiple life bubbles.

For example: sex. This is a healthy physical activity (health), that you perform to relax (leisure), with your partner (love). By this definition, and the aforementioned model of life aspects, sex is a life-efficient activity.

The aforementioned axiom and definition make me think of the concept of living a more “complete life”. Not sure if it’s an axiom, or definition, but here it goes:

A life is “complete” if it targets all life aspect bubbles.

But by this definition, all lives are complete. We have all, at some point in time, have targeted health, work, leisure and love to a certain extent. But very likely, not all of us do it often enough, or intensely enough, in either of the life aspects.

A thought just came to my mind. Not sure how much this makes sense, but here it goes:

Definition:

A life is “k-hour/day complete” if it targets all life aspect bubbles for at least k hours a day.

This definition is work in progress, but it finally targets what I’m trying to say:

Most of our lives are not truly complete.

Can you say that your life is 1-hour complete? Let’s relax the definition by saying:

A life is “k-hour/day/week complete” if it targets all life aspect bubbles for at least k hours a day, averaged in a week.

This relaxation allows people with 4/5 days of 8 hours of work per week to not feel like it’s skewed, or that I’m forcing people to work every day to feel like their lives are complete. But one’s mind generally cannot think further than a week’s time, so I reckon it’s the most reasonable concept to apply for real life.

Until next time

Think about how many aspects of your life you are targeting each week, and how does your k-hours/day/week measurement relate to your life. Please note: I theorize this k-value has the potential to reach 16 hours. Maybe you have already figured out how and why. If not, check out the next post, which may have come out already by the time you’ve read this.

Enjoy life!