Everything has a way

Nearly every day, we consume and clog our brains with anticipatory fears. What if this is all I have ever wanted but it's just not going to happen? What if I study so hard for this test and I still won’t get the results I need? What if I’m not acting the way others expect me to? What if this lasts forever? What if this goes away tomorrow?

Everything has a way, its own way, of working itself out.

Do you ever take a look around you and notice that everything exists, coexists, beautifully without any of your worries? What if the birds bothered the fish and the trees soak up too much of the water from the river? What if the river floods?

Well the birds found a way to coexist, the rain replenishes the river’s water supply, and evaporation counters an oversupply of water.

The thing about nature is that it works itself out all on its own, and that’s why I think it’s just that much more beautiful to us; we don’t have to worry about it or question it or love it or hate it.

We just live in it.

We observe it.

The more I look around me right now sitting on a park bench just watching everything around me the more my mind purifies, ridding itself of the unnecessary fears and worries that it consumes itself with habitually.

The day I freaked out about my first B ruining my life lasted a full week until I realized that I’d live; that a college would still accept a 3.99 GPA.

The day I fell down at a track race I questioned whether the hideous scars would heal. A month later the scars were barely visible.

Though we like to think that we are separate from or control nature, we are really composed by the laws of nature down to the tiniest fiber; cell; atom.

When nature falls, nature picks itself back up.

According to Lenz’s law, a charge neighboring a current will create an induced current faced the opposite direction. By the laws of nature, two things can coexist; one will just have to change its direction. Both are equal in magnitude, the forces are equal and opposite. If you force yourself to try and stop breathing right now, your medulla oblongata simply won’t allow this to happen. It exerts a force in the opposite direction, forcing you to stay alive.

There is something in us that involuntarily wants us to survive. To keep going.

We as humans did not decide to insert this breathing device into our hindbrains, it came with us. We were born like this. We were born by and with nature.

So when you question your self-worth, when you question your ability to succeed, when you question whether you can get to where you want, think of all the laws of nature working in your favor. The more you realize this, your input force becomes additive with nature’s and you, as long as you continue to put in your work/ passion/sweat, will produce a result.

If you start to incorporate other fears, worries, doubts, you are adding forces going in the opposite direction…your net force decreases but you keep wondering why because you keep putting in that work/passion/sweat.

There are a million and one reasons to trust life all because it is built on the foundations of nature.

So when you are sitting and studying wondering if you will get to where you want, remember the additive forces of nature and your drive to succeed.

If you are struggling to trust nature try explaining the indescribable beauty of a sunset, the reason why chicks become attached to their mothers the way human babies do, or the sense of calm moving water instantly provides.

We can answer these questions with science; photoreceptor cells activated in exactly the right proportions when we look at the color of the sunset, the hormone oxytocin that creates maternal bonds, or the rhythmic motion of water following the laws of waves.

But even this science is just an explanation for something we observe.

Now why these things exist the way that they do, in the form that they do, with the beauty that they do are all subjective questions that I’m almost sure have no clear answers. All I do know is that this inexplicability adds to the strength of nature; nature is something we cannot control and the sooner we can learn to accept that and the sooner we can transition from accept to love, the sooner we too will begin to see the natural strength, beauty, and faith inside of us.