Destruction sounds like a powerful and intimidating word, doesn’t it? When we visualize the word “destruction”, our minds go to the worst places we have stored in our memories, like world catastrophes, and remember all the pain and suffering those have caused us. It’s only normal to try to stay away from those thoughts as soon as our minds go there, but the truth is that destruction is not all that bad, in fact, destruction is need it to live.
If you think about the history of the world there has always been an inevitable need for almost all to be destroyed in some way or another. When something, such as an ideology, is no longer working, or when the new outgrows the old, something always breaks, there’s some sort of destruction that fractures the pattern. It doesn’t always have to be physical, it can also be intellectually and emotionally. That’s how the world has and continues to evolve. Always giving room to allow destruction and death to happen is key to transforming into the new. When we try stop it and control it is when more suffering is caused.
One of my favorite things to do is to go to the forest. It not only re-charges me, but I feel calm, and at home. Each season you get to see something different happening in nature. Spring has to be my favorite season of all, because we can see all the flower buds and everything about to bloom. The lime green buds on the tips of the branches growing so delicately. It’s beautiful!
When you go during the summer you can see what the powerful thunderstorms do to nature. Many trees fall off and brake with the heavy rains, and they end up laying in the middle of the forest. Sometimes it’s big trees that get taken down, but nonetheless, they give room and space for all the other branches and trees to continue to grow.
Space.
In order to have room for the new, sometimes the old needs to fall off and die.
Fall is when many trees and plants start to go dormant and many just die because their cycle is over. During winter, they’re just hanging in there. The evergreen looks gorgeous with the white on them, and all other trees are just covered in the snow white that shines bright when the sun decides to come out.
Every season is different and so gorgeous, and with each season something changes, something dies, and something grows—ready to take on the next phase of life.
When we think about death and destruction, let’s not just think the worst. Yes, it’s scary because it’s stepping on to the unknown, but remember that stepping into that space is where the magic happens.
Endurance through the storms and the pain of the destruction and death is sometimes the season we have to go through in life in order to grow. If we don’t have those moments in our lives, there would be no transformation. And to have a fulfilled and meaningful life, transformation and change is what we need to go through from time to time.
Embrace the season of life you’re living through and remember that nothing is permanent. It’s all a beautiful ever changing cycle.
“Ruin is a gift. Ruin is the road to transformation.” Eat. Pray. Love
Nata Writes | Visual Storyteller 