In a way, I believe nature’s way with which to make way for the way through the ever-changing place we occupy in the current way of things, is but one way. Yes, I'm with you. That's enough of the word way for now. But, is it?
What is the way of things? Imagination would place the way of things in almost 8 billion individualistic viewpoints. Would that be incorrect? Is the way of things the way anyone envisions it? Is the way of things just chaos manifesting perpetually? Is the way of things… real?
Perhaps the way things are is the way they should be, at least for now. We have seen how change has in both benign and malignant ways changed the world around us. As such, we can surmise that presently things are as they should be based on the premise of good or evil manifesting simultaneously, or in a type of balance. However, balance does not happen just through will alone. There are a number of actions, reactions, and interactions that must take place. What are they? Moreover, yin and yang may not be at the center of individualism. It could very well be the nature that exists in all things which drives what we believe is a way for things to be. Culture, language, rearing, social stature, type of government, individualistic codes of the group(s) around us, and more have a direct impact on not just our development, but also on what we form the idea of what the way is on.
In nature, there are plants that tend to grow towards the most natural source of light. In the self-same fashion humans gravitate towards what is necessary to/for them, with some caveats. Whether it is due to external stimuli, conglomerates we are a part of, or other things imparting rules that the individual should follow (not blindly, but by an often-chosen degree of control), it all is the basis for a way to manifest. The presence of others always has a great impact on our decisions and how we react to things. Religion has a particular canon which engages individuals in their respective codes and introduces a set of norms that should be upheld in order to belong. Nature purports to evince rule and direction as a novelty of its own presence. Yet, how does nature make decisions on the flow of the seas, volcanic activity, the movement of the tectonic plates, weather, or other naturally occurring phenomena? Sure, there is an apparent pattern to these things. Does that mean that nature has no control over them? Say that nature, like a human body, has a natural response or queue that is followed as the way for things to be; the way a body responds to a pinch or hot surface, or the ability to breathe without thinking. Perhaps, that is nature’s natural purpose or response to things.
What then will nature decide is proper to conceive in order to control the problem with this one entity we call Homo sapiens and how it has managed to not just overpopulate the surface of the earth we walk upon, but to contribute so harshly to the demise of so many natural things? Yet, I can’t help but wonder about the stated premise of how things are: the way they should be, at least for now. If that’s the case, then the same way a plant would grow towards light, perhaps nature has found a way to control the direction of damage done by Homo sapiens by allowing already available mutations in the genome to manifest. This would explain the shift in what was once known as the natural/right way of sexuality to be. In the end, a preconceived notion does not manipulate what is, it only makes for an interesting afterthought. Our intelligence appears to be relative.
For all the things we believe we know, humanity’s collective knowledge probably amounts for a fraction of one percent of what is. We have always known much. At a time, we knew incredible amounts about medicine like how to use an x-ray or how to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease, then the avian flu came. Later, intelligent as we were with our intercontinental ballistic missiles, drones, or landing technology in other planets -to name a few-, we encountered COVID-19. Somehow our feeble bodies can now support life through the centenary when there was a time when half-as-much was considered a good life. In the same vein it was once thought that computers would never really take off because of how massive they were. Today nanomedicine is helping us reach target areas in ways never-before possible. If we are a byproduct of millennia of evolutionary processes converging, being discarded, or conforming to stimuli, then it is not a stretch to understand that nature, being parent to us all, would be at least, just as intelligent. There are a number of complex intricacies in the human brain we do not yet understand. It appears to me, nature had no trouble getting it right billions of times over.
That is not to imply that nature is a member of the types of god-figures which have arisen through time; as far as nature is concerned, we can see it, touch it, smells it, eat it, hear it, sense it, and most importantly are a part of it. Would it be a stretch then to imagine that in order to repair some of the damage that exists in the planet, that nature would impart changes in its already complex ecosystem that would ultimately be self-sustaining? If protecting ourselves is built into our nervous systems, then it is not too far a stretch to believe the same exists in nature. As the Earth wobbles on its axis the frozen poles simply thaw and become frozen elsewhere. We know of animals that migrate or hibernate during different seasons in order to sustain their numbers. I certainly do not understand what the way things should be is, nor can I propose a hypothesis that can be fair to changes in the natural world that I simply cannot comprehend, or am not meant to. Rationally, it would be wise to ponder on the possibilities we are to encounter in our brief stay in nature, while narrowly depending on what will help with the continuity of the self and promoting an environment of prosperity.
We cannot do it all, we are bound by the limits of our imagination, gadgets, and intelligence. Can nature do it all, given the perpetuity of its nature? We found carbon dating (some decades ago) to be an incredible tool to understand the age of things. This was something that nature had been doing all along, it was already coded, materialized, and happening abound. Examples of the perplexing nature with which things occur in nature continue to amaze. For all this, I find myself pondering, what is the way?
