![]() What matters most are the relationships we form with the people around us, and our environment. I remember the microcosm daily so that my spirit lifts and I have hope and joy. To look only at the microcosm can mean your problems seem to be mountains or you are ignorant of the world around you. To look only at the macrocosm means the world is a despairing place bereft of good and beauty. We have to remember this to achieve some balance in life. I smell a flower, watch a tree slowly unfurl its leaves and blooms, pet a cat, plant a flower, nod to a fellow shopper, go to a party, have a drink with friends and listen to their trials and tribulations, and relate to people every day. My soul weeps when all I see is the tragedy of life and ever impending doom.īut…and this is a big emphasis on a small word…but when I look at the microcosm I see my neighbor who will rescue my cat, the friends who push my car through the snow, the person who holds the door open for me, the intimacy and love of friends and family. It’s one reason I don’t read newspapers or watch TV to lessen the onslaught to my sensibilities. The news dwells on the negative and not the uplifting. There are rapists and murderers and pedophiles, drug dealers and car accidents, disease and poverty, wars and subjugation. We see death and cataclysms and everything looks like it’s spiraling down the hole. It is humanity in all its great creativity, the collective consciousness, the evolution of our kind.īut when we look at the world as a whole we see doom and despair. It can also be beautiful: the ocean, the skies above, a forest, the many species that blanket the earth. It is the onslaught of the human condition. The macrocosm can be scary and all-encompassing. On this grand scale we see the war in Libya, the overturning of the government in Egypt, the rising price of gas, heating, food, etc., the many deaths from Japan’s earthquake and subsequent tsunami, the political temperament of France or Tunisia, the cholera in Haiti, the religious fervor in Afghanistan or the human rights issues of China. As well it is the nature of both humankind as a whole and the planet in its entirety. It is also earthquakes, tornadoes, tsunamis, volcanoes. But within the environs of the earth it comes down to a country’s personality. The macrocosm can be something as enormous as the galaxy or the universe. The world revolves on a grand scale and on a small or microcosmic scale.
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