Eart(H)umans

Here I lay, on a Friday morning in my bean bag throne sipping my nice hot flat white that I ordered from the Peoples coffee still in my pj's with unbrushed hair. What a life I live.

Who would've ever thought I'd be here in Wellington, New Zealand drinking coffee and listening to soul music on a Friday morning, fully employed. No complaints.

Per usual, I can't stop thinking about life. It's actually starting to affect my sleep because I am thinking too hard about it. I just can't wrap my head around it though and it is driving me crazy.

This is literally going to sound bizarre and it's not the coffee talking, perhaps it is the alcohol that is talking since this is when I was enlightened about this topic. Are you ready? I don't think you are because I am not even ready and I feel like my mind is going to be even more blown the more I write about it because I'll probably just start thinking about other things that link it all together. Well, I better get started before I lose your interest.

I guess, I'll just start with the simple question of have you ever thought of humans as earthlike creatures? I feel like I always tend to think about humans and earth in their own separate categories, but the reality is, is we are all the same. Humans are composed mainly of water and carbon. What is earth composed of? Shocker, majority water and carbon. As much as we like to think we are in control, think about it, the earth controls us. Natural disasters cause us to have anxiety, go into a state of panic, many people are affected and the rest of their lives are changed forever.

Think of us as plants. Without water we can't survive. Once we start to get dehydrated, we start getting dizzy, lack of energy, and might even start to vom. Don't feed a plant water, guess what happens. The plant starts to wilt, not as much energy, slowly starts to die. What happens when winter hits or we experience long periods of rainfall with no sunlight? Some people fall into depression, we become unhappy, mood overall tends to drop. Don't give a plant sunlight, well I think we all know what happens. Of course there are people that might not be as affected with lack of sunlight just like some plants survive without sunlight and very little water, but you get where I am headed with this.

People wonder why the earth is dying, but think about everything we have done to it. Humans were born naked and we decided to put some clothes on ourselves so now we have these pieces of fabrics that can't be destroyed unless we burn them which is toxic to the Earth, some worse than others. I am talking about CLOTHES, simple pieces of fabric, that are essential to humans that we would never think of being a bad thing. Just imagine everything else that we have created causing major amounts of pollution and toxicity to the world. The thing is, although we are killing the Earth, we will end up killing humanity before the Earth dies. In the end we die, Earth survives. Guess where we go when we die, back into the earth. Our body decomposes and we are part of the cycle again.

Perhaps that is why some religions believe in reincarnation, not the fact that I think I, Michelle Heath, am going to die and be born Michelle Heath again, but energy cannot be created nor destroyed. This means that when I die, my energy will have to be transferred somewhere and my body will continue to enrich the soil giving life to some other living creature. Think about some of the hymns you might sing at church, for example:

"My Savior He can move the mountains My God is Mighty to save He is Mighty to save Forever Author of salvation He rose and conquered the grave Jesus conquered the grave"

So, God, can move the mountains and he rose and conquered the grave. Everything about this verse is talking about earth processes. I don't know why, but all I can think about when singing the part 'he rose and conquered the grave,' is the literal imagine of someone dying, being buried, and now a rose is blooming from the grave. I know you are thinking I am crazy by now, and I'm not saying that I think this verse is saying that God died and then turned into plants. I am just trying to illustrate the connections between earth and humans and how similar we really are. Take some of the scripture from the bible, in particular, the first thing that came in my head is my favorite verse, Matthew 5:13:

"You are the salt of the earth, but if the salt loses it flavour how shall it be seasoned. It is then good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under the feet of men."

Hello people, we are just one little component of earth. Salt, tiny tiny pieces of small white crystals composed of sodium and chlorine. That is what we are to earth. Okay, okay, I may be taking that scripture out of context a little bit, but words matter and hold significance so I do not think that wording happened by mistake. The scripture itself is to empower people to possess the good qualities we like to see in one another because once we go bad, no one really wants to be around that so yeah, get that person out of here.

In the end, whether people believe in a certain religion or not, just like humans and earth, there are vast similarities between them, it is all dependent on the perspective we look at it.

Judge me all you want, I know this all sounds pretty crazy, as it has taken me some time to wrap my head around it all, but do give it some thought. Challenge yourself, challenge your thoughts. Be a better you, water your roots, and grow today.