Yet we had everything, it was this awareness that hit me hard this week. Forced to stop at home since I contracted the cursed virus which had spared me until then, I took full advantage of my waking times between two comatose naps to read, but, above all, to let my mind wander. according to my thoughts. Unaccustomed to taking so much time to do nothing, constantly drifting from task to task in the crazy dance of modern daily life, I seized this break which anchored me in the present moment like never before.
Having read during my forties works by Pierre Rabhi dealing with the importance of wonder in front of Mother Nature and rethinking, following a reading on the Incas, the ancestral way of life of the indigenous peoples much more in harmony with the biodiversity, I couldn’t help but wonder about our way of life, meditating on my disoriented spirituality while my heart asked me sadly: “What are we doing with our dear Mother Earth? ? »
But we had everything. Everything to live in harmony with nature, its laws, its seasons and its reasons. Everything to feed us, clothe us, shelter us and make us happy. We had the present moment, the possibility of infinite wonder before the mysteries of life, before the beauties abounding in the fertile soil of life that is our beautiful planet. We had the happy recklessness of other mammals on Earth, coupled with interpersonal connections with our fellow humans. We had the floor to discuss, create links, remake the world and dream out loud. With the fire as an anchor, the stars as lights testifying to the immensity of the world to discover, our families with whom to share the little pleasures of life in their simplest clothes, what did we miss?
Always more
We had everything and yet we wanted more. More than nature gave us, more than we needed, and more than we were meant to. Desiring to rise above our condition of simple mortal animal, we wanted to play God by defying the rules of our humanity. Until then living at the rhythm of the living, maintaining our place on the chessboard of the food chain, we had everything to live happily, satisfied.
Intelligent enough to understand the importance of the balance between man and nature, a balance necessary for the survival of our species which depends entirely on our terrestrial habitat, we then respected the laws of our environment, we revered all forms of life and we lived in communion with this jewel which had been loaned to us, not given. Being until this critical moment involved in the cycle of life, we have come out of it to become a class apart. From temporary tenants on this Earth, we tried to become owners, to its great displeasure.
From man to monster
We had everything to live in peace with the stars, the living and the dead, but we wanted, out of greed, to possess, conquer, invade and accumulate. More wealth and more resources, more glory and more fame, more titles and more weapons, more women and more envy in the eyes of others, all out of vanity pretending to be able to dominate, subordinate and to use nature, its body, its organs and its offspring to our own advantage. From human, we passed to beast, and then, from wild animal, we passed to monster.
How not to think like this when you take the time to look around you to see the devastation we have done to this beautiful planet, unique in the universe, the only one known in the immensity of infinity that can shelter life . We had everything to enjoy in recognition of this incredible chance to simply be alive, to exist and, every day, to enjoy the graces of Mother Nature. We were an anomaly in the cosmos and have become an ignominy.
This COVID virus, which is currently draining my energy, is a direct consequence of the chain of appropriation, exploitation and distribution put in place by man to create more values, generate more profits and obtain more power through the destruction of our environment. We had everything to live millennia without having to worry about time, but now it is different, time is running out.
We had everything, everything to make our passage an enriching experience as much for our habitat as for our humanity by evolving in symbiosis, but, along the way, we slipped. It’s not too late, but it’s one to midnight. We have all the technologies, all the means and plenty of knowledge to take back our place as a simple participative passenger, but will we have the heart, the will and the humility to say: “I was wrong, I am only human and I burned my wings trying to fly too high. Earth, forgive me and give me a chance to redeem myself on behalf of all mine. »