Sunday 24 June 2018

Calm in the Chaos

Nature tends towards chaos; the enigma of natural entropy. But my mind tends towards order and I'm confused, conflicted and torn.

Birds don't sit in neat rows, sorted alphabetically by surname; they're randomly scattered like raindrops dancing on a puddle. Trees don't grow to identical heights, their creativity isn't diminished or limited by human motives, like the bricks carefully formed into a castle wall. Both behold beauty, yet one demonstrating nature's desire to remain chaotic, the other representing the human desire to override it.

Nature tends towards chaos, but my mind tends towards order. Numbered lists, hours of work completed tallied with lines of equal length. Everything counted and continued until the nimbers round evenly. Pages read, hours of sleep, pieces of pasta eaten.

My mind tends towards order, but I'm learning to see the beauty in nature's disorder. And my mind shifts slightly more in line with natural entropy. And I am learning to appreciate the calm within the chaos

Keep smiling,
Kathryn x