Some say the gods brought it down upon us, some say the gods abandoned us and it came down upon us. Some say its man made, some say its mother nature’s revenge and some say it’s a long overdue lesson. But where ever it came from hell followed close after, looting, chaos, panic, murder, suicide, starvation, cannibalism, gangs, terror and death.
But I say it was mother nature combined with the ignorant meddling of humans. Water cycles, life cycles, diseases, every species, plants,mountains, the sea, the whole god dam world was made by the greatest creator there is, evolution. So why do we interfere with something that has been honed for thousands of years, honed to perfection. Maybe not some peoples version of perfection but the perfection needed to make this world keep moving, keep breathing, keep existing. The type of perfection needed to keep everything in balance, not perfect symmetrical balance but balanced none the less.
Mother nature, evolution where it ever you want to call it is the thing, the invisible rule book or policemen keeping order the way it should be, not the scientific version of perfection. But as a species we have become obsessed with that version of perfection, the text book version, the scientific version. We want to kill every bug, every germ, every unsavoury characteristic, every in perfection we want to eradicate. We want to fight evolutions and mother natures version of perfection, let me tell you something they will outlast us all. They have been here longer than us and will still be here when we are gone. Mother nature has her own method of dealing with imperfections and we kept tipping that balance. We interfered with something that was already perfect, something that didn’t need meddling with and found something one day that we wish we had left alone but it was all too late.
We have the images of how perfect houses, crops, buildings, people, animals, plants should all look. We hide our children from dirt and a few germs to protect them but we are making each generation weaker and weaker, no immune system, no back bone, no common sense. We keep protecting them from all the small things we can but one day some huge thing is going to come along and they wont be able to fight it. Maybe if they had fought the smaller things they might have some idea. Maybe if they hadn’t been wrapped in a little bubble of pretend their whole lives they might have a chance but the bubble keeps getting wrapped tighter and becomes cloudier so they cant see out. Until the old ways are lost, long forgotten but we forget that they got us here where we stand today.
Perfect children, perfect wives, perfect houses, perfect jobs, no risk, perfect crops, surrounded by images of perfection , all the images of perfection fed to us every day, made up created by society driven by wealth and greed and ignorance. And we become weaker and weaker. We destroy our own habitat, we poison it and ourselves. We push ourselves to attain all these perfections instead of enjoying the gift of life given to us and what did we achieve what did we add to our great society.
Before it came and the whole world went crazy my life had no purpose, no beginning and no end, I had no idea what I was doing and where I was going, I was a no hoper drifting through life with no career goal and desire for husband, children and house. But now I know where I'm going and what I'm doing, seems like the old life wasn’t made for me but this new one I'm built for. I was built for a time gone by but what they all forgot was that everything is a circle it all comes round again one way or another. I'm not sure what that says about me. Maybe they were right and I'm heartless and cold but here I am surviving in this new world while they perished in the old one.
Life isn’t always black and white. Life doesn’t always have a straight line down the middle between wrong and right. Life ain't always simple. And quite often this clarity and realisation only comes to us after the event is in motion. This is about a fight for life. Fighting just to survive, fighting for every breath you take. Fighting for the right to tomorrow.
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A New World (Title in progress)
AcciónThe ability to adjust and adapt means the difference between survival and extinction. Animals have been doing it for thousands of years, adapting and changing to their environment, to survive times of hunger, climate change and to outsmart their pre...
