The game of life is to play. Nature is magical for it does not ask permission to play. It is not aware and does not question its own nature. When we become “civilized, we seek permission to behave before we act, because we need to normalise our behaviour. Sad is it not that we need to ask permission so we normalize our actions to make others comfortable?
I don’t propose destructive behaviour just because we can, animals seldom do this because it is indeed destructive and therefore to be avoided. However neither do they ask permission to dance, sing, fish, swim, sleep, enjoy the sunshine, enjoy food, water, air, smells, touch of things about them. They celebrate every moment blissful in not knowing it can end at any moment, full in enjoying it.
We have the benfit of consciously being able to create and formulate ideas, make things and be creative, and the advantage of knowing life in this world at least is finite. Yet we are tied by constraints from within and without.
My reminder today is dance: to the earth, the sun, the moon, the rain your lover, your passions, and be the maker of change.