Natural Law (broken and torn)

A praise to the beauty of Nature

Nature is everything we are not--patient and pure. We, in our essence, are a product of nature, but have severed all innocence with a passion for chaos. I have witnessed an individual make a comment that she “couldn’t last a whole hour alone in ‘nature’ without her phone because it is too boring.” (we were in my college Psych class discussing an assignment to spend a solo hour in nature). The average person can’t stand the simplicity of nature because it is too beautiful--because it is everything we are not, and we can’t stand that.

On a positive note, I adore the concept of nature; the birds represent the power of expression, an expression that even the greatest works of art dedicated to nature fail to capture. The feeling of pure nature has a hum to it; no person can capture it in expression because it’s too simple to grasp--the birds get it because they don’t think about it, they feel it instead. I think there is a distinct energy that emanates from the trees and plants that creates that hum of life the ancient Hindu’s tried to capture in the concept of Om, but couldn’t fully (as hard as they tried) because they tried to confine purity in the limits of language. Anything that was pure is no longer pure after we try to describe it: the definition of purity is freedom from any modifying addition, therefore, the moment we try to add meaning to the word it is lost in context.

So, while alone on the bank of a creek in a park, I realized that I needed to stop thinking and enjoy the experience of being surrounded by the beauty of nature. I let all thoughts go and sat there enjoying the feeling until I fell asleep--natural law broken up by the dreams of surrender to omnipotence--Fibonacci’s sequence at work like the severity of smoke spirals in the wind.

Author's Note

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Reviews

[Sami Khalil]

I like this story like appreciation of Mother nature and its great moments. You have summed it up in that first line...Well done...:)

[Exsanguination]

Always great reviews from you, friend.. Nothing better than sitting on a creek bed during a nice day and getting lost in it all

[Sami Khalil]

That is so true...You are welcome...:)