Seasons

The summer had been tough but thankfully, fall has been nice.  A matter of chain of events, a brutal season leading to a pleasant transition.  The quantitative mind may contest that it doesn't add up and find the situation unnerving from seemingly unrelated contrasting sequence of events.  A mind open to the natural evolution of things born from cause and affect would say, it is as it should have been and fated to be, still evolving. 

I have become a greater student of nature.  Afterall, everything we own including our own mind and body are products of nature and therefore, subject to her rules.  As such, if we are too close to the center of a forceful path, we will naturally be swept away.  If we are too far off beyond its fringe, we may find ourselves left behind, vulnerable to unfamiliar elements, in limbo.  Decisions in life cannot exclude the rules of nature that dictate our survival.  Our survival which leads to the experience of long term survival, which upon reflection at a later stage in life could be qualified in terms of happiness and lack of regret.  Life has a way of moving forward, with or without us.  The force of life is the sum of all things within it.  Fighting against the current of life alone is daunting.  Practical people would consider it a waste of energy.  Successful moments in history have pointed towards compromise as a means of steering the current.  The question to be asked at heart for an honest answer that will hopefully justify the act of opposition is "why".  For what reason?  To what end?  And is that reason a noble one?  With how much casualty?  The quantifying mind may be able to justify with an answer that cancels out where the natural mind struggles to conceive where the rippling affect will end. 

Our instinct, stemming from our heart where heart is abundant, will connect us to the natural law of things.  Is there enough heart within us to find our way to the natural path.  Are we brave enough with the heart we have to admit and submit to the natural rule?