First of all... I've blamed every natural weather disaster since 2005 on Al Gore. He brought us that inconvenient movie and the globe has been fucked ever since. But maybe it's me. Great flood in Nashville right before my bday in 2010. Haven't been home since 2008 but while I'm here, the coast is on tsunami warning bc of the earthquake in Japan. Mother Nature must be mad at me… (I'll start recycling...)
Now... That's ridiculous, I know. Natural disasters are... well… natural. I guess they just prove that we're not on earth to decide or decipher. Maybe we're only here to deal, do what we're going to do to make the most of everything. I'm ok with that.
Also… It's amazing that something that happened like… 6,000 miles away has an effect on us here. From the plane, the waves are small, though larger than usual. I can see the ripples coming. It makes me feel really small. Not in a bad way. A really humbling, deep way.
So… back to Nashville I go. I don't want to go. This air, this proximity to the ocean, it's intoxicating, inspiring. It causes me to ramble. But I like it.
Ok… flight attendant is telling me to put my shit away. I don't wanna cause a "situation." =|
You know, I feel exactly like you do when around grand aspects of our world -- mountains, oceans, etc. And its as if you cant feel nothing but small, humbled, and completely out of control; as if your interventions, at that point, would only seem irrelevant. So, to an extent, I think your assumption is quite alright that "we're only here to deal..." To carry a full comprehensive of how immense our world is, to have that linger on in the back of our minds, would perhaps even deter us from wanting to "save our planet." (Its too damn big, how much change can we affect?) And just as we are living, I believe that our planet is living. Living things usually have self-purifying/self-cleansing processes , or whatever. Nonetheless, I do believe we should try, because Im a staunch believer in the expression "its the effort that counts."
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