Nature: Brutal Or Beautiful? Depending On What You've Built...

[Salaam]

Nature can be such a wonderful teacher, but it's lessons can be brutal or beautiful, depending on what you have built to accompany you as you enter it's classroom.

For instance, the snow gently falling to the ground, or the sound of rain pattering upon the earth can be a beautiful and comforting experience, while sheltered in a well-built, warm, and cozy home. But, if you are alone in the night without shelter, those very same elements can be an experience of dangerous or even life-threatening consequences.

As it is externally, so to is it internally.

What you've built or developed inside yourself determines how brutal or how beautiful an experience can be. But rather than bricks or stone what we build and develop are things like courage, care, sensitivity, trust, resiliency, self-authority, clarity, capability, love, desire, appreciation, gratification, gratitude, creativity, empathy, and compassion.

These are the things that if they accompany us through life, either make us beautiful or brutal people to be around.  Think about how it feels to be around people that have built these things inside them. How warm and cozy it can feel, how inspiring a well developed home of humanity can be. Then think about when these are nowhere to be found, what it feels like to be around someone who lacks these things. How dangerous or even life-threatening it can be.

What kind of beings will we build ourselves to be? Are we homes worth sheltering in, or a danger to avoid? As a home do we collapse under the pressure of the elements, or do we stay warm even in the coldest and harshest of environments nature sends our way?

 

[Fishy]

Very nice read  It resonates well

[Salaam]

@Fishy

Thanks! I'm glad you could feel it

I look at every experience as having both an effect and an affect, which to me means how it feels, and how it shifts and changes you respectively. So in a way, the effect is the weather, and the affect is where the elements from that weather collide against the home of who you are. Sometimes the weather is nice and sunny and sometimes it's cold and harsh and can kill you, but rather than gain power to "change" the weather, my focus is on building character, so I have a stronger home. When the weather is rough, I'm not yelling at the weather or running away from it. I deal with it and use it as a reference for what I should be focused on building to counterbalance it (while still filtering out bullshit, dead-end directions).

One small millimeter at a time I build, regardless of whether it changes the current "weather" I'm feeling or not.

So with a stronger home, we can face weather like fear and pain and terror and aggression and still be a warm place for me and others.

 

[Franz]

Nice read!

But at the end of the day, this is based on judgement. Nature is never "brutal" or "beautiful",

it just "is". And thats what humans have a hard time dealing with, accepting things as they are.

 

To use your words, the stongest home that you may build inside yourself is, above all, a state of acceptence.

You may still come from a place of love and act according to your values in a situation, but without labeling 

it as good or bad. If something happens to you, there is always a natural cause and reason for it.

 

I still agree with what you wrote.

[Salaam]

On 7/9/2016 at 3:24 AM, Franz said:

Nice read!

But at the end of the day, this is based on judgement. Nature is never "brutal" or "beautiful",

it just "is". And thats what humans have a hard time dealing with, accepting things as they are.

 

To use your words, the stongest home that you may build inside yourself is, above all, a state of acceptence.

You may still come from a place of love and act according to your values in a situation, but without labeling 

it as good or bad. If something happens to you, there is always a natural cause and reason for it.

 

I still agree with what you wrote.

Thanks and I understand that that is an interpretation you and many others on this board share, but it's not my preference.

This reality is one of constant motion and change and there are certain changes I prefer over others, ones that are incredibly precious to me that aid and synergize with current patterns of movements that include systems associated with health, choice, expression, connection, and capability.

Those patterns of motion, turned structures are things I put effort in to maintain. I care for them. I protect them against other motions that would destroy the bonds holding them together if they crashed into them without support. Just like hail and other elements of nature can damage and destroy a home if it is not supported, repaired, and cared for.

You can accept all you want and label things as "is" all you want, but if you don't put in effort to take care of things and build, you won't be able to survive the elements.

Nature or the rain doesn't care how you accept it or what you label it, just like a bullet doesn't. You either build something to deflect it, or you get the hell out of it's way.