No one likes feeling helpless, weak, or vulnerable. A man feels like he’s fallen into the sea, with shark fins circling him.
Yet whether as a joke or a whim, Nature has arranged things so that only in this state do we truly begin to grow.
Many will rage: "How? What nonsense! The weak die, only the strong survive and grow!" That's the logic we all know.
Here’s the insight: to be strong, first you simply have to be.
That means life must first come into being. Suddenly, something arises that wasn't there before. A drop of new slips into the old world.
This is technically impossible if your vessel is sealed tight and solid. Like fused quartz, carbon, or sapphire glass.
“In case of emergency, break glass,” says the label on the lifesaving button: the fire alarm, the external defibrillator, the emergency exit release.
It’s counterintuitive. “What do you mean? Break the very thing that’s been protecting me all this time?!” you think in disbelief. Imagine the crab's "thoughts" when it's time to molt: "Everything was fine, and suddenly..."
Say, the first root of a seed, fertilized egg, newborn—symbol of weakness or strength? Don't rush. Think how mighty you must be to suddenly emerge from Nothing.
So what is the strongest in the world? What already is, but isn't yet.
Sincerely yours,
-Alexander
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