Everything Satisfying

has an inconvenience, a compromise, an ashen lining. The source of satisfaction. But is the unearned pleasure a lesser if not borne through sweat? Providence ought garner at the very least equal marvel & respect for its magnanimity. Karmic adherents no doubt ascribe a holistic perspective to fortuity - thus, nothing is ever universally unearned.

What then are we trying to earn everyday when we put in "the hours at work". Well, other than to put food on table, clothes on body and roof on head - to "survive" in so many words, in which the species could certainly have chosen any number of ways like its innumerable peers in the animal kingdom, but some indistinct energessence gave form to a lifeform capable of breathtaking poetry on the one hand and the ability to destroy the entire planet on the other.

What is the unquenched desire provoking this march. That an eternal march may be an assumed normal state when extrapolating dimensionally, it still begs the question miscrocosmically, what is the march of humanity all about? though ants may not "know" it, we omnisciently absorb all there is to perceive in the scope of an ant's interminable march along with millions of others to keep the queen happy.

The queen being responsible for producing ever more ants leads to the banal conclusion we've always felt, that we were put here to ensure we survived. With the spectre of overpopulation at the turn of the Millennium, it is noble that fundamentalist Christians & Muslims are stepping forth onto the altar of self-sacrifice. If they do it in a respectful fashion, those remaining can begin the rejuvenation process with pressure relief afforded by a billion or so fewer clamoring survivalists on the planet. That is really the only way to "ensure a better life for your children".

One could be alarmed at uninvolved parties' silence at rising tensions. Waiting to lay claim to spoils. To steal the pot. Unaware presently perhaps of their assumed responsibility to right the ship after the dust settles, to birth a solution to coexist & multiply without invoking Siva again.

For now then, self-destructive behavior and self-satisfaction entwine like DNA in the soup of dutiful contribution and consideration for others that follow, absent the nihilist vinegar.