DAY 11 – THE BIG THREE

I am in a math class and the teacher breaks down a mathematical formula into its most simplistic form so we can solve the equation. I begin to wonder if we could find a simple way of breaking down and understanding human life.

I started to think about myself. Whatever I do I am doing it within my own body and mind. No one else can know and feel what is going on inside of me. We are all completely separate and unique human beings with each of us having one’s own individual body and mind.

Because I am a separate person, every other human being is someone else. They are individuals who are somewhere on this earth that I will never meet, others who I see in passing, those who I interact with for a period of time and then never see again, others who I meet on occasion and those more special individuals who I have a personal and meaningful relationship with. From the perspective of every other human being I am someone else.

When human beings interact it has a complexity to it with a multitude of scenarios that lead to a multitude of outcomes. The one thing that never changes is that there is a me and you component to them. Humanity could now be thought of as separate individuals living as an island unto themselves lying in an ocean of billions of other separate and distinct human islands that has an impact upon one another.

The other important aspect of life is that all of us live on this planet we call earth. Everything that every single human being requires to live and thrive is what the earth provides. Without the earth functioning as it does life as we know it would not be possible.

Trying to simplify life I now realize that the human world begins with the three major components of oneself, other human beings and everything planet earth provides. This is the starting point for all that follows.