The Value of Small Energies
The most detrimental fabrication spread throughout history is that bigger always equals more powerful. This misconception has not only created a power struggle within humanity, but more importantly humanity’s role in the universe. Ever more common and diagnosable for medical treatment, an existential crisis refers to moments of deep questioning about the purpose of a human life in the grand scheme of the universe. But the fact is, nothing is big on its own, and it’s humanity’s own self destruction that occurs from undervaluing the importance of small energies.
The bees that we so readily kill, now facing extinction, unable to pollinate, taking the plants we need for oxygen and energy to the grave with them.
The virus that packs armies of microbes into one single breath, created a global pandemic, forced people into quarantine, sunk our man made economies.
The CO2 molecule we rely on for personal ease of work, can’t get away from it, exhausting it, heating the world so fast it’s changing the global environment into an uninhabitable space.
Our own bodies, we put in positions of power, cannot be supported without tiny beating hearts, pushing blood molecules through tiny vein tunnels, a brain the size of a Christmas ham holds everything we know and value.
Hormones, chromosomes, and skin pigments, dictate a human’s need to fight for equal rights, marriage, or their own life.
A single chemical imbalance, has the potential to create euphoria, depression, anxiety, and a sense of shame in those who refuse to acknowledge the power of something so small, controlling them, fighting it as weakness.
Nicotine, readily ingested, holding tobacco’s hand, creating addiction, causing cancer, a disease with no cure, but not big enough to stop people from smoking.
Love, best expressed through small consistencies, over and over, seemingly simple acts, but when exchanged for complacency, the small acts disappear, and love passes on.
Whenever we feel that our own internal energies are too small in comparison to the universe, we undervalue all the small energies that are the most important to our survival. Every person has an internal energy and a voice to reflect on it, and although different, never insignificant. I imagine universal energy as a web, interweaving, a complex system of connected elements. Each on-going energy a thread, every internal energy a glowing fiber, solidifying the universe as stronger. People speak of webs synonymously with tangled masses, knots, and snares, but webs only become tangled masses when destructive energies get caught in them. When purposefully crafted, it’s not a mess, it’s a masterpiece. And in this symbiotic relationship, we need to use our own internal energies to make the universe better, in the same way that by working with other energies of the universe, we become stronger as well. Standing on the mountain, I don’t feel unimportant. I feel the world is big, and I am small, but my life is purposeful, and I know I will take care to cherish every moment of it.
