Lessons from gravity

In my previous post I alluded to the power of gravity and the notion that it can help facilitate collaborative living on earth (a concept I would like to term “back getting”). Now, I’m no scientist, but, with a mostly-forgotten high school education in physics, I feel qualified to at least mention the word. Gravity. Gravity is one bizarre thing. It keeps things together yet it is not (itself) visible to the naked eye. It seems that if gravity had a kind of human form it would come in the apparition nature that we so conscientiously talk about but never see. Gravity’s always there, it does not need to be prompted and it always stands ready. With gravity, there are no ambiguities; it knows what it stands for. Need I mention that it is “grounded”? We learn from Newton’s alleged apple experience that gravity never fails – what goes up on earth, must come down!

Imagine if we had to uphold the spirit of gravity as earthlings. I’m convinced that each of us know what kind of “gravity” exists between us and those we know. I dare to say that gravity exists even between us and those we don’t know. Upholding the spirit of gravity would mean we’d naturally be there, no need for pretence shenanigans and we’d let things be. When we help, the action isn’t seen as the word. Because we would be drawn to do what’s right and constant, we wouldn’t even feel the “fulfillment” of “helping” another because we are operating in the realm of gravity, which suggests unconditional, selfless action. In the spirit of gravity we do something as if we would not have done something else. In fact, no alternative act comes to our mind as our predisposition would be one dimensional. May you always have someone’s back, at the least? Let’s learn from gravity.   

Famous last words? Taking heed of the Mayan prediction.

So some okes who lived long ago decided that before the end of the next month it will all be over. All that we’ve chased and paced after on earth will all be reduced to nil. Our likes, our dislikes, our philosophies, our beliefs, what we have, families, friends and maybe our little contribution and accumulations that we have made while here. It’s all going to be no more. On the date, the world will not longer have to live with our shenanigans and stupidity, constant wars, endless and unnecessary killings, our greed and our insatiable desire to see it’s (the world’s) ozone layer be reduced to a see-through gown. While on earth, we (mankind) have strived to do our worst, to ensure that peace and harmony doesn’t persist and that chaos as well as instability is always the order of the day. If we’re lucky enough we’ll allow that date in December to come without us having used our own means (nuclear warfare) to accelerate the process to the end.

How will you (anyone) be spending the last weeks?  Think time to let go of what is a human model of running earth to an earthly (the earth, as we know it ) means of living - precise spinning around a large hot ball of fire distant enough to not be reduced to ashes, doing nothing to interrupt the wellness of others (planets – the likes of Jupiter, Saturn etc), realize that we can only keep on going nicely if we have each other’s backs (gravity), carry no grudges but have systems to replenish life, take stock once in a set interval to celebrate life (24hours and 364days for the earth), keep them at a close but unperturbed distance and always be consciously alive in any bit of time (earth’s never oblivious of its existence and that of other planets). While the earth awaits to live alone, let the last days be well spent. If this won’t be no-so-famous last words, then we will also enjoy 2013 and conjur up another day where we predict it will all end. Let's see.