At the beach on a spring winter evening

I was standing by the edge of the sea this evening and it was almost dark. Just a few stray light from houses on the far side of the bay, other than that only the sky, filled with stars, bright but still like fuzzy dots on a clear but hazy sky. No human sound was heard, until a flickering light from an aircraft, seemingly fluttering like a blinking butterfly in the dark sky was accompanied by a distant whining of is jet engines. But it passed and I was again immersed in solitude, alone on an empty beach on a spring winter evening moving into night.

And thus it occurred to me how important it is to experience how small, infinitesimal we are as individuals in the world. Because the world, nature, the environment, does not need me, or you, or anybody else to function and work. It does not care about our intentions, but nature will react to what we do and how we act. So what we do, individually can converge into collective movement that throws nature of balance in a way that will come back to haunt us.

We need to recognise that we are tiny specks in a huge world but still have the capacity to as a species to totally dominate and direct the future, changing our planets biology as well as geology, moving it into for mankind unknown territory. Maybe to understand this we need to find these moments when we slow down, listen to the emptiness between the sounds and see nothing but stars in the dark, If we can stay in this sense of humbleness for a moment, we can maybe also gather the strength and determination necessary to rectify the path we are on know.