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  • Writer's pictureAshwin Menon

Nature wide

Updated: Dec 8, 2019



Nature can be uncompromising. It never fails to show us its beauty, just like it never fails to show its wild side. It can be beautiful for everyone willing to look for its beauty. It is a matter of search. If we were willing to appreciate, we could see more, feel more and in turn will fill our hearts with joy like no other. All that beauty is right there for us to absorb. Maybe a pair of muddy boots, and gloves are in order but it is there. There a places in the world that we never knew about years back but we do now. Exotic locations, so beautiful that it looks like it was designed by a master sculptor. Flowing shapes and vibrant colours still appeal to the soul even though in modern times geometric shapes, mirror images, parallels are everywhere. Take for example the city of Paris. Planned again from the ground up in geometric patterns, they made a beautiful city, a symbol of modern engineering and progress. But here I feel the idea of pattern is key. Patterns exist everywhere. In art, in workplaces, in farming and a lot of other things humanity has its hands on. Yes its undeniable that patterns are important. But by doing so I feel we have trained our minds to follow this pattern or system. It is efficient for work or something like that but what about nature. What if everything in nature had a pattern? Rain drops fall every year in the same spot at uniform velocity. Lightning always strikes the same spot. Sounds ridiculous. But then it would make attaining resources and taming nature easy. But that is impossible. Patternless things are harder to understand and harder to deal with. A matador in a spanish arena is a highly trained individual who has maybe a knowledge of the particular bulls characteristics but thats about it. There rest of it is his polished skills that make it look so effortless and graceful. He would never go into the ring with no preparation or by trying to memorize that last time the bull went slightly right on its third charge, unless he wanted to be sent flying into row 6 of the viewing gallery. The bull isnt going to follow a pattern all the time. The water flow in a river will not follow a pattern. It has its own way. Its own nature, we say that often. Maybe because everything in nature has its own unique way of happening. So the point is that enjoying this unpredictable environment might help us break the shackles, the shackles that might have held us back from being creative, the shackles that might have held us back from imagining a different path of life, the shackles that never encouraged you to think out of the box. When you are amongst the colors of the wilderness and and you realize your importance in the grand scheme of things you can end up think that your just a small part of it all. Just a tiny piece. Well nobody told that to coral. Small creatures like those can stop tsunamis together. So can we. We can do a lot more than coral. We have the most advanced brains found to date among any living creature so we can do a lot more, be creative and just like the trees dig into your roots and grow into the clouds.

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