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How to Walk on The Wild Side: A way to experience your life differently
“Wildness… sucks up the now, it blazes in your eyes, and it glories in everyone who willfully goes their own way”-Jay Griffiths
*This article was originally published in my Psychology Today Blog, on December 19, 2024
“In span and in size, our human lives unfold between the scale of leaves and the scale of stars, amid a miraculous world born by myriad chance events, any one of which, if ever so slightly different, could have occasioned a lifeless rocky world, or no world at all…”-Maria Popovo
We see the world based on how we learned to learn about life and other environmental influences. It is a given that our world consists of many contradictions that don’t always allow us to recognize our interdependency with each other and our environment.
We are part of nature, which has no opposites when humans do not interrupt it. It flows in a blend toward harmony. When we succumb to the power of opposites, we enter a world of opposition or conflict. Not many people like conflict, but it is the forum for creativity; ask any artist. It also is the essence of comedy. Abbott and Costello could gather jovial baseball laughs, wondering, “Who is on first…What is on second…” and so on. Yet when these situations are unresolved beyond a joke, they create havoc. Whether disrespecting nature or our significant relationships, it ends up being like an…