I have just been looking outside the window today and I see all of the trees and bushes making constant movements based upon the wind.
Now if you have ever studied Greek Mythology, American Indian, or Hindusim you may come to some thoughts and ideas in reference to how our planet effects our lives. The reason I mention the wind of change as life changes and evolves as we do as well personally and professionally. Believe it or not this happens at our tender single digit years as well. We move from pre-k to kindergarten, and up the ladder of educational progression. But what alot of people fail to omit from the educational system is our social progression.
Now so much of that has changed from the 70's to the 2000 plus. The world has evolved as the winds have changed. Now does climate and the gods of the world play a part in our life I will leave that up to everyone else to debate. The reality it we in my mind are affected by the seasons and the climate. As I continue to watch everything shift via the wind I cannot not think that our lives have been evolved by the environment that we live in.
A good winter day forces us to take action in different ways. I remember playing football with pads and helmets in the snow with my friends during a cold blusterous winter day. We tackled, we got dirty and most importantly we had fun. The other side of climatic change of cold or rain is that we gather inside and spend time with our family in an enviroment that forces us to interact which means that it seams as the weather is grounding us in principal to know and respect what we have and enjoy everything that is within our reach without distractions.
Technology evolution has made an impact on our everyday lives as well. Thank goodness when we were young there was no mms, sms, facebook, linkedin, flicker, twitter etc. or 200 plus cable channels along with the internet because it forced to communicate outside with our friends and inside with our family.
The wind of change has occured and I'm not suggesting we ignore the changes but I am suggesting that we embrace the social connections of the past while we also enbrace the technological impact that we have now on our social communication.
The reality is the weather will sometimes force us to communicate with friends and family in a different level than we might embrace in other time. I don't live in a small town now so I'm not sure if kids go out and play until the sun comes down in the summer or that they have a free reign to see their friends. My reality suggests that they do not. Computers allow them to communicate but does that allow them to deeply engage their friends and have the social f2f impact that they all should have.
The world has changed and with that we have as well. Our parents lived in a different world and my guess is that most of them are not sure they welcome the winds of change. My mention of religion above was merely to point out that forever people have mentioned the earth as a compass for life.
Spring is the planting time, fall is the harvest, winter allows for the resupply and killing of all that is bad. Summer is the vibrant and testing time of our lives as we need all of the essentials of social, food, life to survive as we await the bounty of the fall which can be destroyed by summer.
In our lives we have cycles as well and we need to be aware of the change and the impact.
What we do during these cycles will definitetly affect our standard of living.
Thanks for reading and I always look forward to your thoughts.
Now if you have ever studied Greek Mythology, American Indian, or Hindusim you may come to some thoughts and ideas in reference to how our planet effects our lives. The reason I mention the wind of change as life changes and evolves as we do as well personally and professionally. Believe it or not this happens at our tender single digit years as well. We move from pre-k to kindergarten, and up the ladder of educational progression. But what alot of people fail to omit from the educational system is our social progression.
Now so much of that has changed from the 70's to the 2000 plus. The world has evolved as the winds have changed. Now does climate and the gods of the world play a part in our life I will leave that up to everyone else to debate. The reality it we in my mind are affected by the seasons and the climate. As I continue to watch everything shift via the wind I cannot not think that our lives have been evolved by the environment that we live in.
A good winter day forces us to take action in different ways. I remember playing football with pads and helmets in the snow with my friends during a cold blusterous winter day. We tackled, we got dirty and most importantly we had fun. The other side of climatic change of cold or rain is that we gather inside and spend time with our family in an enviroment that forces us to interact which means that it seams as the weather is grounding us in principal to know and respect what we have and enjoy everything that is within our reach without distractions.
Technology evolution has made an impact on our everyday lives as well. Thank goodness when we were young there was no mms, sms, facebook, linkedin, flicker, twitter etc. or 200 plus cable channels along with the internet because it forced to communicate outside with our friends and inside with our family.
The wind of change has occured and I'm not suggesting we ignore the changes but I am suggesting that we embrace the social connections of the past while we also enbrace the technological impact that we have now on our social communication.
The reality is the weather will sometimes force us to communicate with friends and family in a different level than we might embrace in other time. I don't live in a small town now so I'm not sure if kids go out and play until the sun comes down in the summer or that they have a free reign to see their friends. My reality suggests that they do not. Computers allow them to communicate but does that allow them to deeply engage their friends and have the social f2f impact that they all should have.
The world has changed and with that we have as well. Our parents lived in a different world and my guess is that most of them are not sure they welcome the winds of change. My mention of religion above was merely to point out that forever people have mentioned the earth as a compass for life.
Spring is the planting time, fall is the harvest, winter allows for the resupply and killing of all that is bad. Summer is the vibrant and testing time of our lives as we need all of the essentials of social, food, life to survive as we await the bounty of the fall which can be destroyed by summer.
In our lives we have cycles as well and we need to be aware of the change and the impact.
What we do during these cycles will definitetly affect our standard of living.
Thanks for reading and I always look forward to your thoughts.
Well written Jim. Change is the only constant. We study that in Science. Or we used to.
ReplyDeleteEmbracing technology is a great way to evolve. Another way is to realize that the change we are making may not be a positive change so we need to redirect it. Sometimes it is not the most popular idea of the day but you know in your heart it is the highest thought of your own. When you start acting on your highest thoughts, than we bring about great change.
Great blog Jim.