Life and Death

Life and death.

It’s been an intimate dance on this planet for millions of years.

Who are we — slightly evolved primates — to question it? To resist it. To condemn it. To fight it. To turn away from it. To try to change it.

It’s futile. And destructive. And insane.

I recently came across a bottled drink company at the grocery store named Harmless Harvest.

Their name is a lie – bottling and selling coconut water without harm is obviously impossible – but, more broadly, their name and their existence represent the crazy direction part of our society is headed.

They’re going away from nature into some dreamed-up alter-universe that makes them feel warm and fuzzy if their cognitive dissonance is strong enough – and the sad irony is that this path will, without question, lead to more harm to nature in the end.

Take a look around. The natural world is screaming.

Our species needs a massive reality check. And a lot more humility.

In nature, life ends with death, and death creates life.

Life and death. Working with nature, not against it.

There simply is no other way.

We need to start appreciating the reality and beauty of death – and stop constantly fighting it and thinking we can change it or escape it.

Nature. Life and death. An endless, intimate dance.

It’s a beautiful thing – and a healthy thing – if we would just back off and let it happen – stop playing god and trying to create bizarre human ecosystems dependent on technology.

Let’s work to mirror natural systems.

And that includes death.

And that’s more than okay.

It’s essential – and ultimately beautiful.