sexta-feira, 3 de outubro de 2008

About the nature

Sorry, this post will be in english.



Did you ever stop to analyze the nature? Really? Sometimes I make the weirdest analogies with the nature and our lives. For example, when you're seeing a movie about the war. I always ask myself: can you imagine that all these people that dies in the movies... all of them has their own histories, they have their families, waiting for them to come back, they have their dreams and their fears. Everything is going to end, very fast with something in the middle of the war.


Not changing the subject but bringing for the nature perspective, have you ever tought about your small act of accidentally stepping in a house of ants. Yes... if they were human beings, in a very stupid (and avoidable) act, you just drestoyed tons of them. Maybe their moms were there praying for them to come back. And also, in war, generally (at least is a generalization) most of the people that dies are adult men. You could be stepping on small and very young nice ants, with a brilliant future in their lives. hehe... I know that it is a strange analogy, but at least makes me more aware about the environment.


I always remember one of my professors telling me that, as many other things that the human beings uses, the principle of the paviment is the same that is used by the slugs to move themselves. I really doubt about my professor. Can you imagine someone looking at a slug moving and leaving that gosme behind it and screaming: "Eureka!" hehe... I doubt a lot.


But also, sometimes, somethings that happens in our lifes is exactly like being in the nature. It's like, being in love. Isn't it exactly like being in a spider web? I was thinking about it these days. You're there and you simply don't know what is going to happen. Is it better to be completely on your own? no moves?? or would make more sense to try to debate and try to get off of there?


Could you survive or would you simply call the attention for your final and sad destiny?
Something that I always notice about movies with catastrophies: when everyone is in danger, everything that was done by the society is gone. We're back to the nature. People running from a hurricane, trying to save yourselves from the fire, something like that... it doesn't matter if you are a lawyer, if you are a doctor, if you are a homeless. Everybody is going to try to save their own lives - and also their children (like in nature, right?). And I think that's how our strong feelings - sadness, love, passion, rage, etc - makes with us. We're back to the nature. We don't know how to act. We're there, by our own, trying to avoid to do the things that our impulses is telling us to do. Trying to make the best decision, trying to tranform a hurricane in a chess game. And the result of all of it is as simple as it is predictable: probably, you will fail. I am not saying that you should stop trying to be rational and think about your acts. It will help you less.



But it's just for us to put ourselves in our places and face it: doesn't matter if you're a brillant person, a great professional, even an awesome person for the people around you. You're in the nature. At some point, you will be just following the gosme that someone else left for you, you will be creating or falling in a spider web, running from a hurricane, simply being stepped by a inattentive person. And sometimes, when everything supposed to be peacefully, your home, your life, your job, your dreams... you're just... again back to the nature.

3 comentários:

Cindy disse...

oOoohh!!

You are indeed a naturally very good blogger, I like your entry :)

Hugs from Rotterdam

Anônimo disse...

Ótima reflexão...
Às vezes, parar para pensar em como vivemos, o que estamos fazendo e principalmente tentar achar uma razão para tudo que fizemos de escolhas e como nos moldamos é bom para abaixarmos a guarda e diminuir um pouco do senso de urgência de todos os dias - levar a vida um pouco mais naturalmente, menos à sério.
Tulhão, espero que suas reflexões estejam lhe rendendo tranquilidade. O post é em inglês e posso não ter compreendido muito bem a idéia central. Mas às vezes me preocupo como é que você tá por ai...
Caso sinta falta de pessoas que realmente se importam com você e o que você tem a dizer, ao menos por mim eu respondo, sou todo ouvidos e sempre por aqui apoiando.

Aquele abraço meu caro!

Janeth disse...

Ok many things to say:
1. I will miss you! You, your silly analogies and you making fun of me!

2. I told you what to do, I will search on the internet for you. But first get a neutral advise from Pipe and Ligia

3. Today I was in the metro reading that book you recomended and it said something similar about the nature you mention related to our daily life... o que isso tem a ver com o meu café com leite.

I'll show you later.
Hugs