Week 11 (make up)

I think this week we had talked about Fukushima spill, the first time around. Although I have a lot to say on this subject, I want to talk about what Hillary had to say regarding this, in her blog.

"But, on the bright side, I once heard a woman speak who said something along the lines of this: a caterpillar, when it is growing, consumes an unbelievable amount of food. It will eat everything around it, and some caterpillar's starve because they destroy their surroundings and, thus, cannot find enough to eat. However, after a little while of this, they make themselves a chrysalis, and in time emerge as butterflies, which go on to pollinate and live symbiotically with their surroundings. This woman postulated that this time in human history is our caterpillar phase, and that our inevitable course is that of the butterfly. I'll take it.

Ummmmmm, thank you so much for posting that! Because I think, sometimes, it's vital to talk about other outlooks besides how doomed we are. Humans and what they've done to each other and to the planet is so depressing. Sometimes, it can be too overwhelming when always looking at the down side. I can easily regard all the bad things that are happening as "the truth", when it fact, there is a dichotomy to everything... and in all reality, if we had no attachments, the state our world is in right now wouldn't be bad or good. It just is. BUT, going back to the quote above, we never know where our world is actually headed, or the karma we will burn in the meantime. I don't want to stand in this world with a blind ignorance, but I also don't want to only see the negative things. You can't treat a disease with hate. So always finding the bad in the state of things we want to see change can actually be quite devastating. Finding beauty in what we are right now, and in who we want to be, as a people, and as a world, may in fact, have a much more positive, uplifting, and exponential power to it.