Heroes Not Zombies

I have a fascination for water.

When I look up I see clouds – which seem so solid but are really so transient. On this particular day (the photograph above) there was a storm coming, and I think you can see the seeds of it in these clouds.

But waves are also fascinating.

Again, they look so solid, but for such brief periods of time. You can follow a wave with your gaze and without doubt it looks as if an coherent body of molecules is traveling together over the surface of the sea. But it isn’t! The wave is an energy pattern and as it passes through the water it moves the molecules up and down in a kind of circular motion. The wave which arrives on the shore is not “made of” the same water molecules which it seemed to be made of when you first spotted it heading towards the land.

Clouds and waves.

Such brilliant demonstrations of the most essential characteristics of our lives.

Both are transient but while they exist they seem quite solid.

Both are created by energy patterns which we can’t see, although we clearly see the effects these creative “forces” have.

Both are made of patterns of molecules which hang together for a period of time but are in fact being replaced constantly.

It might seem a stretch to think of our bodies this way, but we too are “made of” constantly changing patterns of molecules. We too are the brief manifestation of underlying invisible forces and energies.

We, too, are beautiful and fascinating. (And, yes, that includes YOU)