How often do I write something that appears pertinent to someone else? More often than you might believe. This world is so interwoven and connected. We are so much more alike than different. Most of us want the same basic things, need the same basic things.
We just go about it differently. We are all active in the way that best defines who we are. Some are takers, others givers. Some are doers, others dreamers. Some are self centered, others world centered, but we are all something and in a sort of convoluted way, we compliment each other and keep the world where it is.
This is the real crux. The balance point is not just one tiny cross hair on this huge plane we live on. There is a lot of leeway, depending on what is expected, or wanted.
Is it status quo? Am I content to keep things the way they have always been? Is it okay to go along using things because I want to? Pretending ignorance of the past is hardly possible anymore. The world is much smaller than it used to be. Now I know that jungles can become vast deserts and oceans, huge places filled with inedible fish.
Do I want to change things now? Impatience is a boon for the inquisitive and creators. They leap from idea to idea, invention to invention and we have vaccines, more environmentally friendly products and innovative educational tools. Impatience is also here for the users and it is not such a good thing then. Unable to forego the pleasure of today for the security of tomorrow, they gobble up resources faster than it is possible to replace them, making way for the austere non-users to keep things balanced. Balance is here, but where the fulcrum goes is not always clear.
I write about apples and you think it is you I am talking about, because you are making apple salad, or remembering the witch in Snow White with her poison apples, or writing a book about Johnny Appleseed, or just “like them apples.”
Interesting, isn't it?
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