Nature will strike back

 I have been told by a woman that she couldn't imagine that people lived inside of all buildings. they were more like a the scenography in film: Just thin walls with nothing inside of it. She was autistic.

I think its the same when we meet other people - we are not able to see the complexity behind the mask.

After having meditated for many years it has really come in to my mind that all things have a depth and it is impossible to understand everything about a phenomena. I see more see whole than the small parts when I take my daily (sometimes mindful) walk,

Everything is connected to everything else. There are really people behind windows in the buildings, but we don't know much about them . 

In the next year there may be other people behind the walls.: everything changes. So don't stick to anything too much.

There is a speculation about the chance that life came to our planet with asteroids from other corners of our universe. In that case all life is connected. Of course life must have evolved in many different ways in other places and maybe have wiped out too.

In some periods of life on this planets life has nearly been extincted too. 

In the music of the Icelandic composer, Anna Thorvaldsdottir ,you can hear nature's forces. her work is not so anthropocentric. Although she make place for some calm and beauty you can hear the earth deep from the magma of the Icelandic volcanoes.   Maybe we can compere her music to some of the romantic painters, like Friedrich or the late Turner - But without any wanderer or ships,

There is also a likeness with the pre-Socratic philosopher Heraclitus; everything is in flux and war is everything's father. He is seen as a fore father to Hegel and Marx  and their dialectic thinking - in that case something new comes after a war or a catastrophe. For Marx capitalism was the catastrophe that would destroy itself. (Now its said that its easier to imagine the end of our civilization than the end of capitalism). 

Anyway, when you understand that everything changes - you know that better time can come - even if we right now live in a quite dark era. 

To get a bit calmer in bad times; meditate, don't read the news to often and say nice things to strangers, that will make yourself and the stranger more pleased. 

But also listen to Anna  Thorvaldsdottir's warning to us - if we will not be kinder to nature it will strike back.