Like a Butterfly!

BRIGHTEVERYDAY Like a Butterfly!

I visited a Coronavirus Testing Station very recently. It was very humbling and truly inspirational. The weather was quite shocking, windy, and persistent horizontal rain, There were signs everywhere of a huge combined effort, from its very inception, to the warm and friendly faces, despite the weather, and the demeanour of all the many staff and testing officials. It makes one think just how simple actions can be so emblematic, quietly but professionally dispensing tests, reassuring with a gesture or a glance, a friendly smile, all engaging in smoothly synchronised, vital health tests. It was not a process, rather an intervention by resolute souls, with distinct pride, and an aura of exuberance, and imperious assiduity.

What comforts there are in gestures and kindness, often lifting spirits of the lonely, distressed, or even depressed, the bereaved, and those lost in the maelstrom of modern society. Many suffer in silence, but it is so good not to feel alone, accepting comfort and support, after all, the human touch is divine and sensitive. One must never feel isolated or removed, rather be responsive and engage, even in times of adversity. We all deserve love and nourishment.

We are naturally exuberant, mindful, and inquiring and we must never be ashamed of our deepest fears. emotions and insecurities. There may seem a dearth of profound listeners or teachers, and even in the absence, often, of traditional religious guidance, there is a wealth of good and learned people of integrity and purpose, whose counsel is found through many sublime and esoteric tutelage. Valuable and assiduous teachings and study exist profusely in eastern cultures; alternative religious groups, natural herbal medical remedies, and many arcane teachings, in both historical and modern times. There is no elixir for comfort and well-being.

We must search for our own truth, seek those connections and meaningful interactions, then move forward without fear and self-doubt. We do well to remember the natural state of metamorphosis; it is a sublime natural process, one of evolution, change beyond an ability to intervene, quite part of a natural order. So, never be afraid of change; disorder has a different cloak, and we must always be prepared to learn, assimilate, and embrace the transcendental bountiful world of growth and regeneration. It surrounds us and it is ancient. It heralds a world of majestic elegance, enlightenment, and learning.

Our natural world has great wealth. Never feel diminished or suffer humiliation. We are all part of a Universe which has a natural order, one of great humility and infinite qualities, of which we are participants and travellers. Now, is time to abandon the profane, the secular, and obviate the world of selfish accumulation and modern myopic degradation of our true values. Set an example, look to the determination and indestructibility of our great and prolific natural resources, only depleted in recent times by an ignorant, festering elite, worthless in reality! We have a duty, an obligation to learn the basic tenets of nature, recurring seasons, the inevitability of tides, moon, and sun. It is incumbent upon us to protect and respect, to value life.

Our virtues, collective spirit for good, and empathy towards justice, fairness, and responsible connection of urbane and like-minded people, can direct us to a simpler, meaningful life. A new world order, uncomplicated by abandoning a dominating, indiscriminating, and unfettered, capitalistic, technology-driven model, hiding in wolfs clothing, purporting to be modernism.