Life and its connection with Nature
In the technological era we
easily get connected to the world we have ever imagined. Man ever wanting gets
connected through social networking sites like facebook, mypsace, classmate and
twitter to explore the views of other people, their habitats and culture. He shares
his joys, expresses his apprehension, seeks attention and companion and also
use as a tool to pent up his emotions.
So, it has become a virtual meeting place.
The whole picture of life in this
technological age is painful. We
constantly strive for happiness sitting on websites but it has become never
enduring process. Even People who are involved in practical jobs, hardly find
time to look around either in office or at home. Rather, they log in to
internet when free to get connected to the world, doubtless to say that it has
become a global village. The primary motive is to find happiness. But the
matter of fact is that by connecting, we import the garbage from one mind to
another mid without any border restrictions. This further creates some
psychological problems also. Psychologist Maggie Jackson argues that ‘it
undermines the ability to focus, concentrates and attend to deeper and more
substantive issues in life that are bedrock of intimate social relationship,
wisdom and advances in culture’. Nicholas Carr argues ‘that the ability to
concentrates to think and to follow and argument must be nurture through
practice which occurs when we engage with complex ideas and arguments’. Moreover,
it deeply affects the health and decrease our immunity power which results in
social, physical and emotional imbalance. For this reason we need to entail
with nature and environment to keep healthy mind, body and soul.
What is important, I believe, is
to explore the powerful force of nature and the people around us. It is great
to fulfill our dream but greatest to fulfill other’s dream. It is great to
lessen our sufferings but greater to lessen the sufferings of others. I expect that money is the abstract form to achieve
happiness, which people would barely share. But it is also possible without
offering any material help. Listening to the people around us, who tested the
fruitlessness of their effort, visiting to hospitals and other public places to
interact with the people will give the same kind of sensation and happiness,
considering the people as one determinant of nature.
When we are close to nature we
get uncountable things to learn. In this technological age, people want to
increase the momentum of everything where nature teaches us to go slow. If we
observe the whole growth process of plants, it takes sufficient time to grow.
The time which is consumed by the plant, developing itself from seeds to trees
gives the immense potential to withstand for thousands of years. in
consequence, nature teaches us to go
slow without becoming an operative machines.
People get disappointed when
the result of his efforts and struggles are not calculative. Their hearts get
scratched and bruised and there is a continuous struggle between their heart
and head. Their life swings like a pendulum between pain and continuous
struggle for resultant which leads to pessimistic life. Plants and trees also
get damaged by heavy rain and storm. The resilience powers of plants are higher
and it can withstand even after that. One needs to learn from trees to increase
their resistance. We need to perceive that life will bring endless change and
complexity of series of events.
Some of the transnational
companies sooner or later have recognized the constant sufferings of people in contemporary
times. Fastrack has set their punchline
“MOVE ON” which indirectly gives the message to make ourselves compatible with
the change. Similarly, Blackberry has
laid “KEEP MOVING” for its new product and Fiat has set “MAKE THE MOVE” for its
new car. Without giving dynamic explanation
these companies is giving message not only to shift the brand but also for
vertical and horizontal expansion of life.
It is the tendency of the people to get heartened and disturbed by the
external world and get stucked in his life. Aristotle argues that there is a
power within us that mould every form, in plants and planets in animals and
men. So instead of examining everything around us we need to look within
ourselves to bring change.
Gardening and nurturing the
plants require ‘silent patience’ because the processes of growth in plants are
rather slow but wonderful and amazing. One who nurtures the plants and see the
growth in plants and trees, in-front of his eyes have tremendous propensity to
care for other human beings too. Thus, I believe that a man cannot be too harsh
and morally unworthy if he cares for nature.
Chirping and tweeting of birds
sitting on trees gives same soothing effect to mind what music gives. It
includes melody and harmony which makes our soul graceful. A person with
graceful heart can hardly think to harm others which will also help to deter
crimes in the present state of affairs. So more we dissect the lives of plant,
more we find the roles and reasoning of plants in our lives.
In nurturing the relationship we
need to derive the same level of patience and endurance. Today’s relationship
specifically love(usually called) is fundamentally driven by sensual pleasure
or just to be a center point of
attraction at a place. Their relationship is primarily based on exchange. So
during the process of exchange when exceptions are not met, makes one anguished
whereby it becomes the cause of disappointment. We analyses all the mysterious
hints, every moment and get immersed in depression. But even in the plant
kingdom a dry seed preserve its life for three thousand years and waits for the
favorable situation to grow up as a plant. Here my primary message is to endure
the life sustaining patience and secondary message is that the alignment of
soul-mate is determined by the mysterious force of nature. So, feelings should
be restricted, limited and should be kept concealed. It should appear only in
favorable circumstances and when there is a strong mutual understanding of
acceptance and conformity. Every case of
falling in love(happens umpteen times) should be examined and verified that it
is not merely an attraction directed by loins or willingness of possession but
reciprocation. Inclination towards the nature will restrain the people to
become ‘shrwed’ and ‘cunning’ and it will give the courage to accept the things
boldly. I hope for the time when people will start to synthesis and interpret
their sufferings, misery and losses considering the nature as a teacher to find
the natural explanation.
However, human beings are not
adaptive machines where he will take all the calculative steps. We can examine
the surface of earth because it appears but we do not know, what is inside the
crust…? Similarly, it is difficult to scrutinize the personality of the people.
Human beings are likely to commit mistakes but it should not be considered as
fixed or unchangeable. People are not
born to correct their part of past or the entire past but blessed that they can
‘move’ ahead in their life. To ‘move’ one constantly needs to practice because
it requires adequate effort to come out from the cosy moments.
Change is the constant phenomenon
which has been descried even in our religious book ‘Gita’.
The rotation and revolution of the earth, is the constant changing
phenomena which when once stopped may disrupt the whole mechanism of this
universe. Our life starts decaying once
we stop for any reason.
A moving picture is apparently
not a moving picture but only a series of snap-shot. It is taken in rapid
succession which creates the illusion of continuity. Life is also divided into
the static pretense and we loses energy to maintain the momentum and
continuity. Hence, it is important to see our life with great optimism and
vivacity and to move onward and upward with molecular prudence.
Hu(wo)man are by nature geometricians which is merely an
illusion. They measure and calculates there every activity but as the life
grows, there alternatives are also amplified. Each moment there is something
new which we might have never supposed, so change is more fundamental. Thus, existence on this earth will bring the
change and it is pertinent to be mature to adopt and adapt with the changes.
Ideal maturity is not something when we are operational with the sexual ability
to perform but to adapt and adjust in accordance with the format of time to
make it perfect. Perfection is again an
illusion if we make it as an aim of life. Nevertheless, I would say that it is
an ever enduring process of approaching, maturing, filtering and perfecting.
