So, I got this idea stuck in my head the other day, thinking about ‘eternity’. Sounds kinda big, right? It wasn’t like I was trying to solve the universe or anything. I was just messing around, clearing out some old stuff, found a broken clock. One of those old wind-up ones. Made me think about time just… going. And then, naturally, the idea of forever popped up.
What does ‘forever’ even look like? I figured, let’s try and doodle a symbol for it. My first thought, obviously, was that infinity loop, the figure eight on its side. Easy enough. I grabbed a piece of scrap paper and a pen that was running out – you know the type.
Getting Started – The Obvious Stuff
I drew a few infinity loops. Some fat, some thin. Yeah, it means infinity, everyone knows that. But it felt… common. Like a math thing, or something you see on cheesy jewelry. It didn’t feel like eternity, you know? Felt too neat, too perfect maybe.
Then I remembered that snake eating its own tail. Ouroboros, I think it’s called? Tried sketching that. Looked less like a profound symbol of cycles and more like a worm having a bad day. My drawing skills aren’t exactly top-notch, let’s be honest. So, that was a bust.
Hitting a Wall
Okay, what else? I spent a good hour just doodling shapes.
- Circles inside circles.
- Spirals (those were tricky).
- Just straight lines going off the page.
- Tried weaving lines together.
Nothing really clicked. It all felt a bit forced. Like I was trying too hard to make something deep and meaningful. Mostly it just looked like scribbles. Felt a bit silly, sitting there trying to draw ‘forever’.
Then Something Shifted
I stopped trying to draw a thing. Instead, I just let the pen move. Made a simple circle. Then another one around it, but not perfect. Wobbly. Then another. It started looking like ripples in water, spreading out. Not trapped in a loop, but expanding. Or, if you looked at it differently, maybe shrinking back to a single point.
It wasn’t one single, static symbol. It was the idea of that movement. The constant spreading out, or coming back. Never really stopping, always changing slightly. That felt more… real. More like how I imagined eternity might be. Not a perfect, repeating pattern, but something constantly flowing, growing, maybe even fading and restarting.
So, What’s the Symbol?
In the end, I didn’t land on one single perfect icon. There’s no crisp logo for eternity on my paper. It’s more like a messy sketch of those expanding, imperfect circles. The symbol wasn’t the final drawing, it was the process of thinking about it, the movement in the lines.
So yeah, that was my little exercise. Didn’t unlock any cosmic secrets. Just spent some time with a pen and paper, thinking about a big idea in a simple way. Found that ‘eternity’ for me wasn’t a fixed shape, but more like those ripples – always moving, never quite the same. Kinda like time itself, I guess. Funny how messing around with a doodle can lead you down those paths.
