#7—Multiplicity: Explained
Creation Date: 2022/12/02
I absolutely love multiplicity. The more, the merry! When I was growing up in the 90's, I was a bookworm. We didn't have the internet in our house. We had a rotary phone and a phone book to dial up some relatives. Family gatherings were the thing! But, there was also many community programs, and there was always Church.
Church was everything in my life growing up. From the moments I first heard in a Holy Roman Catholic church that a Living God created all things, even me, and that His Son, Jesus, preached and lived virtues to the masses before being murdered by a democratic mob, not only did I accept the Holy Gospel, but I did my best to live the teachings of virtue. Quite frankly, even though I was like in between the ages of 3 and 4, I wanted to live in the church. I wanted to be a steward of the Living God's dwelling. I wanted to be baptized and baptize others. I wanted to teach what Jesus teached, the virtues!
When I was able to get into sports, I wanted to play real football and baseball. I started baseball at the tee-ball level, and youth soccer was awesome, to! I loved the whole idea of the games I became obsessed. I delved completely into them. I worked hard on perfecting the sports from the moment I was on a team. I made it an understanding that in order to perfect my game that I needed to be a teammate. Now, as much as I understood I needed to be a teammate, I really wanted to do it all, play any position required to make the team better. I was something of a sports nut from the moment I was in possession of the ball, no matter which sport I was playing. I wanted my team to win, and I wanted to promote coming to church on the weekends because I had the belief that I could do anything, be the best teammate, because of Christ, Jesus, my/our savior.
I wanted to bring people into the church through my actions in the light of the world. Faith in Christ, Jesus, was the foundations of my mentality when approaching sports. It was the multiplicity of it all, the experience of coming together in church, I wanted to replicate the experience in sports.
I should explain what multiplicity is to me.
What is multiplicity—
Multiplicity to me is the extra-ordinary experience of a life event shared by different individuals with different life experiences prior to the event. After the extra-ordinary event has taken place, the individuals feel a togetherness that is binding. The extra-ordinary may have had different meanings for the individuals, but that is something for a singularity mentality to create meaning.
The extra-ordinary experience of multiplicity to me involves a mentality unlike singularity mentalities. The mentality I have when approaching mentalities needs an understanding that individuals will come to a difference in meaning because of their life experiences leading up to the extra-ordinary life event. When I understand this, I am willing and able to accept their meanings, store this information in my memorial processes, and build on that so as to build relationships. When I am buildins up relationships, remembering what meaning prior extra-ordinary life events meant to them, I can find common ground if a life event had similar meaning to me. This helps me find vibes with others, like if we did have similar meanings and feelings for an extra-ordinary life event, it is my experience that relationships can strengthen more easily. And although some individuals might not have had experiences similar to mine, I need a proper mentality that I can still vibe with somebody, but the relationship depth may take more time and more experiences. I just need to be patient and work at all. I don't want to stop trying ever, which is something I have struggled with at times. It is my experience that it comes easy for individuals to stop trying in a relationship when meaning and feelings in and for an extra-ordinary life event conflict with another individual whom somebody may have had a desire to become friends with. Though with family, this understanding is usually different, but hey, I am more likely to be around non-family members than with family members in life.
What's important in multiplicity is the mentality of how to best approach the impending life event. Best examples of multiplicity whereby mentality is so interwoven in the experience is being on a sport team. Individuals play a position and we rely on others. We are going to have different experiences and we need that understanding of knowing what we can control as a team and individually, what is not in our control, and that no matter what, the outcome loss, win, or draw I will just say there is a beer to drink after "with our names on it". Good music, friends, and beer. A Heineken 0.0 if you aren't twenty-one (hehe). We can always unwind together, share our experiences on the field, and prepare ourselves for the next event, building on our past experience as one body, a synchronized multiplicity working together to triumph, once or again.
So, yeah. That's a good idea of what I believe multiplicity is when I relate multiplicity to something in my blog articles.
There is a reason why I have written this article now before I write about my first experience in a Psychiatric hospital. The reason is that I am about to recall myself entering into a multiplicity of singularity. It's a collision of life experience. Every client in the psychiatric hospital is instantiated in a treatment plan, yet the treatments are 'group therapy' focused. A lot can happen when multiplicity and singularity mingle, and my first blog article about the first time I was in a Psychiatric hospital will try to explain the multiplicity in singularity, but I will go more in depth on my "vuise" of multiplicity and singularity mixing and sometimes working together to create a unique multiplicity sensation.
Oh, I am going to dedicate this article to all my teammates.