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Our Beautiful Dependence
Have you ever had the pleasure of watching a butterfly pollinate a flower? It is truly a miraculous thing to witness. The flower is dependent on that butterfly to come and transfer pollen from that flower to another flower. The flowers themselves cannot get the pollen to the other flowers without the butterfly coming and transferring the pollen.
How does the flower know that the butterfly will come? What if the butterfly never comes? Who gives the cue to the butterfly to go to the flowers that need pollinating?
Now consider the ocean. That beautiful expanse of water teeming with life. All of the bigger fish are depending on the smaller fish to show up as a food source. Again, how does all of this work? Who gives the cue for the fish to feed off of other life?
Nature is such a beautiful example of this dependence that we have on each other.
Humans are dependent on each other too. To forget this puts us in peril. To forget this we isolate each other. In fact, I believe that many of our problems relate to this belief that someone we should make it on our own. The feeling of isolation is so common in our world. Many people feel lonely. Many people feel that they don’t matter. Many social ills come from this false narrative that somehow we are separate from and not dependent on others.
