We Are All Just Daisies

 

Shasta Daisy

 

"Accept  everything just the way it is"

-Musashi  Miyamoto The Book of Five Rings.

 

    Humans have always aspired to greatness, to be as beautiful as a rose or the grand sunflower. We do so in ignorance. We have always held ourselves in high regard even as we committed atrocities against each other. Surely we can rise above our base nature. Surely we can learn from past mistakes. But what if this is as far as we can go? What if the ideal of evolution is just wishful thinking. What if our karma is to always be an ordinary daisy.

     We are born, live, die and then be reborn in an endless cycle of existence -as a daisy. Some will live in the sun in the best soil, favored by the bees. Some will live in the shade, weak and ignored. We will never be a different plant in the next life. There is nothing wrong with being a daisy, a perfectly lovely flower that comes in a variety of sizes and colors.

    There will always be honest, decent people helping each other and there will be horrible monsters bent on self destruction out of egotistical fear. Each rise and fall of civilization balancing out our nature and keeping us in place. To strive for a better world is admirable but until there is a collective shift in conscientious, there will be no uplifting.

    Some species die out of their own accord and we have come close many times. Survival of the fittest has harden us against a greater good out of primordial fear and pushing real growth out of reach.

    The idea of enlightenment, of being powerful beings of light and all may simply be the wishful blather of the humble daisy craving to be a rose or a tall sunflower. In reality, all we can hope for is to be a kinder daisy.