Moments of Awareness

I wonder what we'll do when we realize that for every pathogen we think we've conquered as many will arise as need be to fulfill the functions of those we've eliminated. Just beyond that and the awareness that disease is a form of natural population control is the realization that an uncontrolled population is it's own greatest danger, which means disease is good, in the sense of being purposeful and beneficial in the grand scheme. Most of us have no problem with these basic tenets until the disease results in death, especially the death of someone we know, especially someone we love. Perhaps beyond the realization that disease is good we'll find that even death is good. Perhaps that will open the door to finding death in ease, not needing all the pain and trauma of disease or accident to allow ourselves to pass from this life to the next. And there will always be a next life. Life could not exist without death, but neither can death exist without life. If when we

Do people think you're fickle, unreliable[,] or irresponsible for changing so readily?

By Peace Jaway June 10, 2004

Perhaps. To us it's more important that we feel what we're doing is appropriate than that others necessarily perceive it immediately to be. If a thing isn't working in the long-term we search it to figure out what we missed in our earlier considerations and make the changes that seem to address those new learnings, or, if we find that we were right on track but had for some reason simply gotten stuck or see a problem but no solution, we make no immediate changes and either stand still for a while or find a way to continue on the path we're already traveling, whichever seems most appropriate to the situation. The opinions of others come into play when those people are in a place we wouldn't mind finding ourselves and/or when they've demonstrated in creating their own lives (regardless of it's similarity to anything we might be interested in) the sort of attitude we espouse and foster, and then only to the degree that it's appropriate to apply those opinio