Life as such is a strange animal or may be we, human, are the tricky part of it. Life is usually an easy flow of events (from very large ones (think of interacting galaxies) to tiny ones (like a caterpillar transforming itself into a butterfly) with the vast majority of them being predictable and very few of them being non predictable. Nature adapts herself to the changing environment at a slow pace, because there is abundance of everything she needs on earth and because non predictable events (responsible for disorders) are rare.
Animals are living in a space of three dimensions and live in harmony with the nature. They have every day to eat, drink and sleep and start that loop of actions over and over again. They have smaller loops like daily habits, and longer loops like yearly seasonal habits, as plants have too. Beside these intrinsic loops, time doesn’t count.
With the ability to think, the human conscientiousness rules the world and the 3D space. And because we have organized that space by adding a fourth dimension to it (the time) we create a chaotic environment around us. For our loss.
Our conscientiousness makes us believe that the time has always existed in the way we perceive it. We take pictures to remember the good old times. We are making big plans about our future and we need to pay our bills in due time. We are convinced that the time has always existed and will always exist. Many of our actions are related to the past and the future. We take the time as an element which cannot be avoided. In fact we have built all our society around it.
The time orchestrates our agendas and our agendas rule our lives. We plan everything and most our thinking is occupied at analyzing the past and planning the most desirable future. This is because we have plans that we are modifying the natural flow of life that runs through us. Because we expect something, we change the course of our lives and doing so disrupt the system.
The fact that we take the time as granted makes us believe our goal and reasons to be on hearth must be different from the ones for the animal, vegetal and non organic worlds. Why should it be? In fact using the time to drive our lives render us less natural. Less in contact with the nature. We are losing ground. We do not act, as animal do, based on our instinct, but based on our plans. Our minds are polluted. And because billions of us are setting goals independently from each others we are building the biggest chaotic event on earth, ever. And the triggering element of this event is the time. We are guilty to think that the time will help us to make a better living. It won’t.
Can we get back to a more natural, less chaotic life? Forget the time to do so. Don’t reassess the past, don’t make big plans for the future. Be in the now. Listen to your feelings and act upon it. Feel your body and decide if what you are currently doing is right for you or not. If it is, you will be like animals, living in the flow of life, connected to a greater order. If you go against it, you increase the disorder in your vicinity.
Remove the time in your live and you will suddenly be back to your origin with the same basic needs and only one possible action: to live the present. There is no more plan to aim for, no possibility to show off. Yes you are smart. Then all will profit from you because you will share the benefits of your action. You cannot stock something, there is no need, no plan. There is no future to think at. Of course there is a future but if you let your instinct taking care of it, you will go through the tuff times as any animal does. Some hibernate, some are making reserve (instinctively), some are traveling.
There is a natural way for each specie on earth, why not for us, human?