This
link below made me cry sometimes and sometimes filled me with just
plain awe. I urge you to watch its beauty and listen to its truth.
Truth, often, is better than any fiction one could create. While we
have time to ponder the great creation that is life both large and small
I highly recommend viewing the film below entitled "Love Thy Nature."
Is there something we can learn from the ravages of COVID-19? Perhaps,
it is this: As great as man's big brain is nature in all its creation
is bigger than all of us. It presents challenges that give man pause to
reflect on his own diminutive being and ask why the smallest/simplest
of microscopic things unseen by the naked eye yet worldwide are bringing
man to his knees. Why does this exist in nature only to pose an
existential threat to man; a good topic for research.
I
too was felled by a virus and asked many times over my life what on
earth could a five year old have done that would exact its pound of
flesh from a young body asking me to pay its extortion over a lifetime?
The answer, I think is, there is no answer but to say it teaches us
humility that this microscopic piece of RNA will have the last word
until man's big brain can figure out a way within nature's laws and
working in tandem with nature to halt its destruction of our species.
Another answer, of course, is that man is not the center of the universe
and that other things large and small can threaten and even destroy us.
Humans
must heed the warnings of science to isolate, use masks, wash our hands
for a minimum of 20 seconds and do what the best scientists implore us
to do because science is the best way man has of telling environmental
truth no matter how difficult that truth is to hear. Until science with
man's big brain as its engine, ultimately finds a way out of this mind
altering darkness go and walk humbly with nature seeing the integral
part it plays in our survival. Man works hand in hand with nature and
nature, in all its glory, will be the final arbiter of all things as it
presents another ever present Everest for man to climb. Man will climb
it though and should do its bidding without destroying the nature that
supports us all as it teaches us to find the road out.
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