Post by Shrouded Wolf on Dec 10, 2010 11:19:26 GMT -5
Well.. I had to write a paper for my group presentation and I was wondering if my fellow Exodites would mind helping me out by reading over it, provide some comments/input, and perhaps do an edit.
Whispering Worlds
Everything dealing with human activities and behavior can easily be traced back to and correlated with our old, primal relationship with nature. Much like the rest of Mother Nature’s creatures, we certainly have the ability to think, adapt, and grow based on a plethora of instincts developed from the millennia of experiences throughout the lives of humans. The bottom line is that, our communication is really no different than that of creatures deemed to be “lesser animals” as while we might have speech, something that’s deemed as our distinction from other animals. The bottom line is that whatever may the preferred method, the techniques, the underlying processes are still the same. You can even see the phases, or seasons, of our habitat as an example of how we communicate. For instance, our complex relationships, these ancient forces follow a simple pattern to create such extraordinary things while starting from essentially nothing. And that occurs in a pattern much like how the seasons change from the cold of winter, to summer’s warm glow. Mother Nature does communicate; all you have to do is listen.
The entire cycle begins during winter’s last breaths. Remember how during late winter when the snows are just starting to melt, the snowdrops start to come through the snows? For nature, the change is called the transition from winter to spring. It is the time when Mother Nature takes the bleak white environment from the winter and makes it so that life begins to take back the world and slowly, step by step, returns greenery to splendor. For our interpersonal relationships, this stage is called contact. Much like in nature when the plants slowly start to evolve from seeds planted deep in the soil, the relationship starts to develop. In nature, wherever you live, you can always count on those first shoots of your local flora to show you that the world is still alive. In interpersonal relationships, this is the stage where you may be coming out of a shell, finding someone you care for, or perhaps a new friend. Whatever your motivation is, whether a greeting is a loud and warm “why hello there! How are you?” or a shy and simple “hi,” this is where everything begins. In fact, this makes it almost ironic that many holidays serve in the cold seasons; even our cultures help with the development. The New Year also happens to be a rather early but excellent signal showing that everything is having a fresh start.
The next big step of the cycle is when everything explodes into a strong cycle of development. It is the time when the slowly growing shoots and saplings from the end of winter suddenly develop into a time of rapid growth when all plants begin to change the simple greens of the beginning into all sorts of deep and beautiful colors via the development of flowers. This magical time of growth is called spring; for us, humans, it’s called involvement. Yet plants aren’t the only things in development here. Be it plants, animals, or even relationships, you can see the evolution triggering the blossoming of new tomorrows. Whether it’s human holidays such as St. Valentine’s Day or flowers, trees seeking to be pollinated, or animals in the wild breeding, spring has always been a season of love and intimacy, and certainly peaks in the development of these aspects of relationships. As time flows by, nature becomes radiant, as does a relationship. With some relationships, this is the highest point of the developments. Yet that is not always the case. With relationships that are special enough, the case of the development cycle still continues.
To Mother Nature, the next part has always been about change, be it for the better or worse. She calls this time summer-time; we simply call it intimacy. For flowers, this time is the change from the pretty initial developments into something quite beautiful. For trees, the change is even more drastic as this is the point in the when the colorful flowers that the trees grew begin to change into little cocoons that eventually will develop to bear fruit. If you last those spring months of feverish communication, summer is the seal of success on a relationship. In a way, this is the highest point of a relationship, the peak of Mt. Everest, the cream of the crop. Yet at the same time, it also is a time of equilibrium. Since Mother Nature doesn’t seem to know what it wants summer to be, it becomes to be a mix of a lot of things. It is a time of happiness and relaxation. It is hot with the spirit of freedom in the air. Yet it is also dry, harsh and merciless to those that can’t handle the changes. If you will, link this, to a school student’s summer vacations; if you can outlast them, you have only good memories ahead. If you cannot, you will simply have the situation of a huge downward spiral that will develop into tension and decay. While this time of decay isn’t necessarily bad for the relationships of people, the problem is that not a lot of people are good with dealing with them, thus the time when the relationship develops into the next stage, it takes a nose-dive that it can’t recover from. Many relationships show signs of tension in these sweltering months, and if they cannot be repaired, the decline is imminent.
The next stage in all this development is the time labeled quite appropriately as “fall” for more reasons than just falling leaves and fruit. This is the stage when the relationships tend start on a gradual nose-dive from the beautiful balance of an equilibrium. Despite its nickname, the actual name in nature for this is autumn while for relationships, the name is deterioration. Unfortunately, all too often, this marks the beginning of the end of many things end of many things, relationships included, that tend to happen in these dying times. Mighty trees lose their canopies as well as the fruit that they have spent the entirety of summer developing. Flowers begin to wither away. Rivers begin to freeze. More and more, people tend to retreat back into their homes when the shadow of winter begins to loom over them. While on a downfall, a chain of events similar to this can happen to humans too, be it simple friends or passionate lovers. A lot of things happen during this time. Arguments whittle away at happiness, and bitterness from the these arguments starts to ebb the warm glow of love away. As much as a bear retreats to its den for the winter in order to shield itself from the cold of the upcoming winter, so to may you, you may be broken but you’re not beaten yet; all you’re doing is waiting for spring to visit once again. As you near the end of this stage, the winter, showing the deadness of humanity, begins to set in and your relationship ends.
Much like the rise and fall of nature’s grandeur, unfortunately, this stage of the cycle can be found in the human relationships as well. This stage may be referred to as winter in nature or it may be referred to as dissolution in the case of relationships. Remember how in the last stage, couples begin to fall out of love? This is the stage where that finally sets in and things become more final. The point in time where the cold fog of separation sets in, this is the sage where the icy blizzards of isolation begin to happen, this is the stage where the cold snows of finality finally cover the ground of the beautiful thing that was once a booming lush and green orchards and fields. The bottom line is if the last stage was where the relationship takes a nose-dive out of the sky, this is where the love finally hits the ground. Unfortunately, most of the time, this part of the cycle is too, inevitable, yet not unnecessary. As one relationship ends, it simply makes room for another one to begin, except this time, you can take what you’ve learned from your last one and evolve it so that the equilibrium lasts longer, so that the downward spiral doesn’t affect you as much, and so that the rotting fall can be returned back into the lush summer. Eventually, you will find a relationship that will transcend the cycle, no matter the distance or obstacles. If you find a relationship that can do that, you will see a perfect form; a true friend or soul mate. This rare occurrence is what drives communication: a sense of perfection. So the next time you see spring approaching, you too can ride the waves of the cycle. And while the cycle is there and is quite resilient against being broken, once one enters it with enough willpower while in what is a true relationship, only then can you seek to finally break free of it and enjoy the heavens of summertime for a lifetime.
Whispering Worlds
Everything dealing with human activities and behavior can easily be traced back to and correlated with our old, primal relationship with nature. Much like the rest of Mother Nature’s creatures, we certainly have the ability to think, adapt, and grow based on a plethora of instincts developed from the millennia of experiences throughout the lives of humans. The bottom line is that, our communication is really no different than that of creatures deemed to be “lesser animals” as while we might have speech, something that’s deemed as our distinction from other animals. The bottom line is that whatever may the preferred method, the techniques, the underlying processes are still the same. You can even see the phases, or seasons, of our habitat as an example of how we communicate. For instance, our complex relationships, these ancient forces follow a simple pattern to create such extraordinary things while starting from essentially nothing. And that occurs in a pattern much like how the seasons change from the cold of winter, to summer’s warm glow. Mother Nature does communicate; all you have to do is listen.
The entire cycle begins during winter’s last breaths. Remember how during late winter when the snows are just starting to melt, the snowdrops start to come through the snows? For nature, the change is called the transition from winter to spring. It is the time when Mother Nature takes the bleak white environment from the winter and makes it so that life begins to take back the world and slowly, step by step, returns greenery to splendor. For our interpersonal relationships, this stage is called contact. Much like in nature when the plants slowly start to evolve from seeds planted deep in the soil, the relationship starts to develop. In nature, wherever you live, you can always count on those first shoots of your local flora to show you that the world is still alive. In interpersonal relationships, this is the stage where you may be coming out of a shell, finding someone you care for, or perhaps a new friend. Whatever your motivation is, whether a greeting is a loud and warm “why hello there! How are you?” or a shy and simple “hi,” this is where everything begins. In fact, this makes it almost ironic that many holidays serve in the cold seasons; even our cultures help with the development. The New Year also happens to be a rather early but excellent signal showing that everything is having a fresh start.
The next big step of the cycle is when everything explodes into a strong cycle of development. It is the time when the slowly growing shoots and saplings from the end of winter suddenly develop into a time of rapid growth when all plants begin to change the simple greens of the beginning into all sorts of deep and beautiful colors via the development of flowers. This magical time of growth is called spring; for us, humans, it’s called involvement. Yet plants aren’t the only things in development here. Be it plants, animals, or even relationships, you can see the evolution triggering the blossoming of new tomorrows. Whether it’s human holidays such as St. Valentine’s Day or flowers, trees seeking to be pollinated, or animals in the wild breeding, spring has always been a season of love and intimacy, and certainly peaks in the development of these aspects of relationships. As time flows by, nature becomes radiant, as does a relationship. With some relationships, this is the highest point of the developments. Yet that is not always the case. With relationships that are special enough, the case of the development cycle still continues.
To Mother Nature, the next part has always been about change, be it for the better or worse. She calls this time summer-time; we simply call it intimacy. For flowers, this time is the change from the pretty initial developments into something quite beautiful. For trees, the change is even more drastic as this is the point in the when the colorful flowers that the trees grew begin to change into little cocoons that eventually will develop to bear fruit. If you last those spring months of feverish communication, summer is the seal of success on a relationship. In a way, this is the highest point of a relationship, the peak of Mt. Everest, the cream of the crop. Yet at the same time, it also is a time of equilibrium. Since Mother Nature doesn’t seem to know what it wants summer to be, it becomes to be a mix of a lot of things. It is a time of happiness and relaxation. It is hot with the spirit of freedom in the air. Yet it is also dry, harsh and merciless to those that can’t handle the changes. If you will, link this, to a school student’s summer vacations; if you can outlast them, you have only good memories ahead. If you cannot, you will simply have the situation of a huge downward spiral that will develop into tension and decay. While this time of decay isn’t necessarily bad for the relationships of people, the problem is that not a lot of people are good with dealing with them, thus the time when the relationship develops into the next stage, it takes a nose-dive that it can’t recover from. Many relationships show signs of tension in these sweltering months, and if they cannot be repaired, the decline is imminent.
The next stage in all this development is the time labeled quite appropriately as “fall” for more reasons than just falling leaves and fruit. This is the stage when the relationships tend start on a gradual nose-dive from the beautiful balance of an equilibrium. Despite its nickname, the actual name in nature for this is autumn while for relationships, the name is deterioration. Unfortunately, all too often, this marks the beginning of the end of many things end of many things, relationships included, that tend to happen in these dying times. Mighty trees lose their canopies as well as the fruit that they have spent the entirety of summer developing. Flowers begin to wither away. Rivers begin to freeze. More and more, people tend to retreat back into their homes when the shadow of winter begins to loom over them. While on a downfall, a chain of events similar to this can happen to humans too, be it simple friends or passionate lovers. A lot of things happen during this time. Arguments whittle away at happiness, and bitterness from the these arguments starts to ebb the warm glow of love away. As much as a bear retreats to its den for the winter in order to shield itself from the cold of the upcoming winter, so to may you, you may be broken but you’re not beaten yet; all you’re doing is waiting for spring to visit once again. As you near the end of this stage, the winter, showing the deadness of humanity, begins to set in and your relationship ends.
Much like the rise and fall of nature’s grandeur, unfortunately, this stage of the cycle can be found in the human relationships as well. This stage may be referred to as winter in nature or it may be referred to as dissolution in the case of relationships. Remember how in the last stage, couples begin to fall out of love? This is the stage where that finally sets in and things become more final. The point in time where the cold fog of separation sets in, this is the sage where the icy blizzards of isolation begin to happen, this is the stage where the cold snows of finality finally cover the ground of the beautiful thing that was once a booming lush and green orchards and fields. The bottom line is if the last stage was where the relationship takes a nose-dive out of the sky, this is where the love finally hits the ground. Unfortunately, most of the time, this part of the cycle is too, inevitable, yet not unnecessary. As one relationship ends, it simply makes room for another one to begin, except this time, you can take what you’ve learned from your last one and evolve it so that the equilibrium lasts longer, so that the downward spiral doesn’t affect you as much, and so that the rotting fall can be returned back into the lush summer. Eventually, you will find a relationship that will transcend the cycle, no matter the distance or obstacles. If you find a relationship that can do that, you will see a perfect form; a true friend or soul mate. This rare occurrence is what drives communication: a sense of perfection. So the next time you see spring approaching, you too can ride the waves of the cycle. And while the cycle is there and is quite resilient against being broken, once one enters it with enough willpower while in what is a true relationship, only then can you seek to finally break free of it and enjoy the heavens of summertime for a lifetime.