In The Same Space

… I saw the gregarious, so happy, surrounded by her group of friends, going out for the night, having a really good time, beaming from ear to ear, carefree, lost in the moment. I also saw the lonely with a forlorn look, really sad with no friend or family. His loneliness was like a gulf swallowing him whole. The pain was intense and he questioned the meaning and purpose of life.

I saw the wise, perceptive and intuitive, with deep insight into life and its way. Having an understanding of man and his biding, his direction. I also saw the fool, totally clueless, oblivious to his folly, parading his stupidity for the whole world to see. Not knowing and not seeking to know. Puffed up in his ignorance and leaving a trail everywhere he has been, louder than anyone else.

I see wealth, I see opulence, I see abundance, I see super abundance, I see wastage, I see more than enough, I see way too much. I see superfluity. Yet I also see lack, intense lack, I see scarcity, I see sparseness, I see poverty, I see hunger, I see famine, I see malnourished, in the same space.

I see new life, I see rejoicing at the new birth, I see hope, I see dreams, I see prophecy, I see the future, I see the exhilaration, I see the plans and then I see death, I see the end, I see shattered dreams, I see pain, grief, I feel the questions unanswered, I feel the weight of the sorrow. I see the finality of death.

I see the healthy, oozing with life and wellness, strong and alive. Youthful and thriving. Bouncing from one stage to another, from one project to another, from quest to another. Yet I see the sick, unhealthy and frail, dependent and depressed, demotivated and afraid, despising of life in the same space.

I see the very popular and the not so popular, the well loved and the not so loved, the composed and the clumsy, the motivated and the unmotivated, the godly and the ungodly, the kind and the mean, the gentle and the brash, the civilised and the uncivilized, the learned and the unlearned, the loving and the unloving, the well travelled and the unexposed, the happy and the sad, the young and the old, the fat and the thin, tall and the short, the keen and indifferent, the awaken and the asleep, the religious and the irreverent, the calming and the troublesome etc.

In the same space, I see it all, from one extreme to the other and everything inbetween. We all occupy this same space called earth. How do we navigate this space? It is not one against the world. It is one amongst all in the world. The earth belongs to no man, it is no mans land, it is a space we all occupy for a period and then move on, let the earth bear us witness (even if no man does) that while we were here we made good use of the space.

In the same manner that a top interior designer arranges and rearranges the furniture in a room until he gets it in the right position. He maximises the space, steps back, observe and changes the position again for newness and variety. Let us all continue to position and reposition ourself in this space. It is not the piece of furniture being in the room that creates the effect, it is the manner and where it is position in the room.

Maximise this space, called earth!