The world is our mirror

Last Updated on August 1, 2016 by Patrick

I noticed, recently, in our behaviour a distinct pattern of carelessness, indiference, apathy towards the world we live in, and in particular towards our fellows and towards nature. It appears to me that it is a lack of respect which goes deeper into dissapointment and revenge or defeatism for life itself.

I also saw that how we respond to the world is exactly how the world responds to us. We are accustomed to not care about ourselves and about the surroundings we live in, like we based our lives on them, like we trusted and been dissapointed. It is deeply implanted in our behaviour that the world, people, nature are hostile and we should never trust anybody. Is each and everyone for themselves and this, to me, looks like the heaviest form of separatism we could ever live in.

Another thing is that however we behave, the world reflects what we do. A simple example is by looking at what we leave behind wherever we go or in what state we leave the world after us. Wherever we go we do something and that affects everything around us. If we are negligents and very messy, we leave garbages around us and not to mention that the places we are in are in a state of disrepair, even on the brink of collapsing. On the contrary, if we care for the world, for ourselves, this is reflected in our behaviour and thus it is reflected in what we do and what we leave behind. It is our mirror. Our deeds speak for themselves. The world shines with beauty because we care for it, we make it beautiful and we behave as such creating beautiful things wherever we go.

I’d like to recount what I’ve done and where I’ve been lately. So, I was travelling again and this time I wasn’t alone, I was with some friends. We decided to go out of town and visit the mountains a little. As you know, I like the mountains, I like nature, especially in the mountainous areas, the forests, the steep rocky cliffs and so on. So we’ve been to Lake Vidraru and onwards to the ruins of a medieval fortress that was active back in the fifteenth century. I was struck by the fact that we leave a lot of mess behind when we travel to the mountains. There are a lot of careless people in our country and they live like it’s the last day of their life, like they can’t turn back time, like something horrible happened to them in the past and it’s done.. they can’t undo what’s been done to then, they cannot recover their lives at all. The problem is that this happens to new generations as well, generations that were born after 1990. As you probably know, our country was for decades under communist regimes and horrible inhumane experiments have been conducted on us. I can remember phenomenon like Pitesti and many others where a lot of christians were tortured and as a result of their revenge, been humiliated to the point of no return for them and for their lives. We still carry those scars in our psyche, in our Souls, in our conscience. And the big problem here is that we haven’t got over it yet and as a result, we teach this to our children, that life is cruel, the world is bad, ugly, horrible, that we only have one life and we should live it to the full (meaning we should consume it as fast and as intense as possible) and that there is no God. This is our sadness. But do you see the paradox of it? Life is cruel, the world is ugly and bad because we make them as such. :D This is fantastic! How we choose to live is how life is. That’s what I have learned recently.

The world is our mirror and it reflects what we think, feel and act. The world shows us the results of our strange behaviours.

We leave trash behind. We destroy things. We live only to satisfy our appetites and this is not life. This is death, as sad and outrageous as it may sound!

But not to worry! Nature finds a way to use what we leave behind because life is not over yet. This is one of the things we forgot about, that life is not vertical or one-way. Life is ever changing and cyclical. Nothing goes to waste, nothing disappears, everything is in continuous transformation. After one of us leaves this world, life goes on.

So make way! There are newcomers that want to live here as well. ;)