77. Our Home Planet

When seen from outer space, images of our earth look like a beautiful blue marble wisped with swirls of white. Yet, we all know from our surroundings, the multitude of colours that formulate the intricacy of our planet. In other words, the outer smooth beauty does not reveal the often violent turbulence of the continual inner working. I wonder why I find this concept so familiar? Perhaps this is because we too can present a camouflaged happy exterior even when something entirely different may be occurring inside.

Despite the variety of species that exist in the animal or plant kingdom, there are five basic elements (earth, water, fire, air and space) that creates physical life on earth. Being part of the planet, we are also animated by the same five elements along with a quotient of the same source intelligence that creates our universe. We too carry a population of flora and fauna in the trillions. In essence, we are not separate or dissimilar to the make-up of our planet. However, the fundamental difference is that we need the planet to live this physical life, not the other way around! I wonder when we unlearned this truth…

Study of deep history of human life suggests that our DNA is programmed to live ten times longer than our current life expectancy. What could have brought this deteriorating change? A major reason could be our unsustainable lack of nutrition and lifestyle that harms both us and our planet. It denotes a lack of self-love, discipline and responsibility amongst other variables. Perhaps if we individually simplify our lives and choose with wisdom, we could avoid disaster and create an alternative future, for both us and our home planet. Can it ever be too late?