Do we live like a dancing doll, waiting for a coin to make us dance?
I had this realization recently.
You know those dancing dolls that come to life when you drop a coin in? They dance for a while, stop, and then you need to drop another coin for it to start again.
Now, if you think about it, this analogy fits perfectly in our own lives.
We do our work. Someone pays us. We dance around, we’re happy. Then it ends. We wait for someone else to drop money in. The cycle repeats.
But it’s not just money. You could replace it with recognition, fame, likes, followers—you name it. It still fits the pattern.
The thing is, all of these are external things.
So my question was:
The doll is designed to operate this way, relying on the coin. But are we?
That is when I thought,
What if we could close off that opening, the one that lets external things like money, fame, or likes into our system?
And create a new opening where these things can enter but stay outside, saved for when needed, without entering into our internal system?
So we won’t depend on these external things to make us dance. We’ll move to our own internal tune, doing what we love because it itself makes us to dance from within.
Right?
No coin needs to be dropped.
And if we do get something from the outside, great. But we’ll keep it external and maybe use it when in need.
So that it’ll neither define our happiness nor the external tune will dictate us.
In that way, we can actually blend into our society without actually blending in like a dancing doll.
La?
That’s my cup of tea. What’s yours?