Contemplation

Nisolomou
5 min readDec 19, 2021
The planet earth, in all its glory. View from space, and with the horizon shining amongst the stars.
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How nice it is to wake up in a house, to go to work, leave work before your time, to go out to eat with friends and to return to your house, comfortable and calm.

Maybe you might talk for a while on social media, and maybe you might go for a car ride, or even do some of your hobbies.

You definitely have personal ideologies as well. You believe in a kind of God, you have or do not have some specific political and philosophical beliefs that you will defend to the end.

But what is the finale of this chain?

At what point are your personal circumstances undermined by a collective ideology?

Difficult question to answer.

There are many aspects from which one can attempt to answer the above question. But just one absolute word is enough to set the guideline margins.

Humanity.

It is nice that now, in the twenty-first century, we can have the comforts we have now. But our time has begun to disappear.

Everything is a circle and comes back to us. Call it karma, call it fate. Is true.

Half the world is burning, forests are being destroyed by human factors, and the temperature is rising day by day.

States are weakening more and more with each passing day, and we still continue to believe that there is still a right to personal choice in the whole matter.

Here is the news.

Our choice has become an obligation.

We must teach education, to make sure that we live with nature and not against it, and above all we must remember that among all the countless planets of the universe, our blue dot is the only one with life, at least the one that raised us.

It does not matter if your company has more revenue than the competing company, or if your photo on that one social media network became famous or not.

What is this nonsense.

Personal bliss is fine, but humanity is paramount.

If we continue like this, in a few decades there will not be half of the birds we knew, the tigers, the lions, the elephants, the exotic forests, the fresh air, the blue seas.

You will tell me “What do I care? We will survive again”.

And I will tell you, you may be right, and it is your right. But I will be pretending.

I will be closing my eyes to the fact that we have allowed the social events of the present to idealize the destruction of our planet.

And now I come back to humanity, and I slap you with the truth again.

The planet and humanity are more important than you. And me.

Nothing matters, other than our coexistence with nature and the survival of our species, in this order preferably.

The greatest ideological consciousness that can be achieved by each of us individually, is the realization that spiritual evolution is more important than carnal well-being.

But it seems we have forgotten these great and utopian ideals. We have allowed ourselves to stray from the path of spiritual progress.

And this is connected with the great proverb that “A society grows great when old men plant trees in whose shade they shall never sit”.

We want actions here and now. We want immediate money, immediate well-being, immediate food, immediate information, immediate everything. Regardless of cost.

The fault may be in our way of life today, or in the way in which each state coexists with its neighbor on the basis of any political ideologies. Maybe our collective education is to blame.

Or maybe it’s our fault, in that we close our eyes to truths that do not interest us or that do not affect us here and now.

But that must change. Because, in a little while we will understand that it is not the present that matters, but the future.

The enjoyment of a child who says “thank you” after twenty years of proper upbringing. A good grade in school, a good car, product of your quality work after years of hard work. Or even a gold medal at the Olympics.

Such is human existence. It builds for the future.

People are weak, they make mistakes, they hope, they love, but above all they evolve.

From the foundation of the first civilizations, man has been trying to understand the meaning of existence. Well, here it is.

It is not the greatness, or the money, or the glory.

It is the heritage. The biological and the spiritual.

We have the first part. Unfortunately very successfully. The second?

In several thousand years, I imagine, a small percentage of our population will have left a very dignified legacy of impressive achievements, inventions, works of art, and ideologies.

The rest of us;

As a mass, what will we be proud of? That we burned half the planet? That we eliminated half of life? That we committed genocides in the name of our nation; Or that we dismantled everything that made us human in the first place?

But what made us human?

I will tell you what. The symbiosis.

Coexistence for survival, for prosperity, for progress, for peace, for development, for enrichment of our imagination.

Imagination. Maybe that’s what’s missing from us at the moment. Maybe this small biological asset of Homo Sapiens is going to be our method of destruction or our survival.

So let’s try to imagine our future.

In a century almost all of us will not be here.

What future do we want to leave? Not only in nature, but also in the daily lives of our descendants;

To constantly go to work, to disintegrate our planet, not to allow ourselves to enrich its imagination, is not human. Not even sustainable.

We need to review the values ​​we have as states, as nations, as citizens, as parents, and above all, as people.

We owe it to protect our human side and the nature that has offered us so much from the very first second of our existence.

Otherwise. . . End.

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