Lessons from Nature
If there’s one thing I want to learn from nature, it’s that you don’t need to have it all figured out. I look at the way the moon light dances on the ocean, who’s water ripples every which way, no end goal in mind. Slowly. Calmly. It’s in no rush, no hurry. Calm and chaos coexisting at the same time. Nature doesn’t have it all figured out. It’s not strict in the way it moves. It’s flowing and free. We don’t need to have all the bricks in all the right places. Suffocating ourselves in a box of perfection. We can just exist, with all our mishaps and imperfections. Embracing all the things we don’t have figured out, all the messy stuff that makes us alive. Makes us human. Yes, it is important that we work on ourselves. However, it’s imperative that we allow ourselves to be like the ocean every now and then. Flowing and alive.
We all have compassion for the imperfect ways of nature. We love the warm sun on our skin, even though it hurts our eyes. We love the ocean waves, even though the salt can burn.
Why can’t we have the same compassion for ourselves? Aren’t we also part of nature? Can’t we take in our good and bad attributes as they are? Allowing this dichotomy to exist within us without waging an internal war? Just letting the human be alive without the constant tension of needing to tame our beasts.
There is so much we can learn from nature! How to be at peace at eatchother, coexist with different species and to learn that there is beauty in everything 🌸
Nature can be cruel, but it's always natural. Sounds obvious, but sometimes, we can get so stuck in trying to understand why things happen when really, there's no reason other than it was going to happen eventually.