What's life after all?

Isn’t life about creation, transformation, decay, destruction and re-creation? Still human beings have a hard time accepting destruction, in the form of death, decomposition, disintegration, or simply change of any kind. We may not remember it when we most need it, but humanity is a live entity, alive, therefore always changing, going from health to sickness to death and back all the time. Why are we so shocked when crises hit us?

Californians and people inhabiting the Earth belly prominence may be oblivious about this, but I find it amazing how nature “falls” for a season of the year only to “spring” back later! Where does the life force go? Is it busy destroying? Has someone studied the way that atomic vibrations behave, how the molecules organize themselves during this stage? There should obviously be a change in their physical functioning that makes those live beings look dead! What does it make them re-organize, what does it trigger the back to life leap?

Today’s news reverberates in all people’s conversations all over the world. This is no news for the reader! “The world is crumbling down” –is the leiv motive. It may be time we develop the capacity and the will to accept that Winter comes once in a while; that night gets very dark before dawn; that natures’ debris has to rot before it serves as fertilizer for new life. Yes, our acceptance should include recognizing that Winter gets very cold, sometimes unbearable for some with very little fat storage like me, that some get scared when night gets really dark, that rotting things smell really bad and we try to avoid them as much as possible.

On the other hand, who was the guy who stated, “nothing is lost, everything is transformed”? There is an imperative need to look for the life force that is hidden behind this fall. Life with the purity of new buds is dormant in the decay. Realizing this does not save us from the illusive feeling of loss, the mourning, the pain that disintegration involves, but it can open our eyes about the work we can do to redirect the life force to where we would like it to go. A friend of mine likes cultivating tulips, she cares for those bulbs like others do for gold. They look dry, inactive, dead! Although she waters them once in a while, they take a good nap under the soil all winter. And right at the dawn of rebirth season, they spring in Technicolor.

Shouldn’t we keep busy in a project of re-creation instead of lamenting the death of the world’s mess? I need to confess that I like to see the end of deterioration; I like this opportunity we have to bury the decay deep in the soil to feed a new life that will be fresh, pure and radiant. Can we dare to dream? Can we dare to work for the dream? Can we stop mourning for something it does not serve us anymore? Are we ready to re-create life?