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Life is a chaotic path, the consequence of your decisions and your future is higly dependent of the initial conditions, and a single step can change everything, or not.

In the mandelbrot set, you can be "in" the mandelbrot set (anti-buddhabrot view) :



Where every path will orbit endlessly repeating the same patterns, succes, and errors as everyone else.
Moving inside the mandelbrot set is easy, you can change slightly your path but you will just repeat the same non-sense as everyone else, turning around, again and again and .. again.
This is crowded place where a lot of living being share the same path as you. You might find interesting and very long path, but as long as you stay with the "social crowd" it will be a safe, boring,  path.

You can be "out" of the mandelbrot set, very out. So out that nobody bothered rendering thoses path.
The anonymous path, the path without purpose. You came, you vanished, you lived, you died, nobody saw you, nobody want to know.



Or you can make the intense effort, energy consuming, to live at the edge.
Where everything is possible, where "the possibilities are infinite" :



Every step is truely chaotic, you can stumble upon and fall in another mandelbrot set where you'll take a rest and orbit for a few step (or even stay in forever with passion) :



You can even fall into a madness pit :



where you sould come back to the past to find another pattern of life.


But living at the edge is the most interesting path where the real marvel of life is. A single step, a single action and you could be here :


or there :





The Mandelbrot/Buddhabrot show us that the common sentence that "you're in, or you're out" is wrong. There is a 3rd way of life which is marvelous, infinite, and dangerous (eg : the madness pit, or moving too far out of the edge, or... who know ?). But that you can move (on purpose) or fall (by accident) into another smaller mandelbrot to take a break then move at the edge again for another journey of infinite possibilities.

That's where i live, that's where i want to live.
And today, i'm tired, so i'll take a break inside a small mandelbrot set before falling into a madness pit without noticing it.  

*hugs*  

that certainly does not qualify as proof

nice images and story!

Look at Paul Valéry's quote in my signature!

Great insight. I am so happy that I have read this. Thanks man.