The value of big, clear, and tangible things is obvious. We’ve long known how to use them for good. That’s why we eagerly buy them and take care of them.
Obvious things provide a foundation and peace to an anxious mind.
The anxious mind believes a disaster is just around the corner, so the hand jerks toward the emergency brake. Like someone falling from a tree, desperately grabbing for any branch. The sturdier and thicker the saving branch, the faster instinct commands to seize and hold onto it at any cost.
When time is short and the risk is great, something is always better than nothing.
But actual emergencies are rare, while the mind insists they lurk at every step. Modern society, like a paranoid individual, has elevated its hyper-valuable idea to the status of absolute truth:
The intangible is nothing. Only the obvious exists.
You just want to hug society, calm it down, and give it hope. Because the truth lies on the opposite end of the child’s seesaw.
Watch a video of a seed planted in the soil. After watering, what happens first? Does a ripe orange suddenly appear? No.
For 11 days, the seed grows long roots deep into the ground. Without a clever camera, all we’d see is a green sprout breaking through the soil on day 18. But even then, the fruit won’t appear for another 5 years.
Something valuable already exists, even if it feels like there’s nothing there.
A juicy fruit is hidden inside a dry seed buried in dirty soil. Who believes in this enough to “pointlessly” water the ground? A farmer or gardener who has witnessed the miracle many times.
Does this not feel like a miracle to you? Then imagine the orange is you.
Yours sincerely,
-Alexander
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