Discover Nature and Discover Yourself

           Discover Nature and Discover Yourself

Dr Abe V Rotor

Living with Nature - School on Blog

Idyllic Farm Life mural by Dr Abe V Rotor, circa 2002

If you've been in all your life living on the fast lane, trying to beat everyone, 

though you know you'll never win this nameless race;

If you've been residing in a high rise building, taller than everything around,

and touching the clouds, and you know your feet is off the ground;

If you've been missing the passing of seasons, the wonders that each brings,

though you keep the holidays and weekends;

If you've been constantly bothered by ailments that medicine can only relieve,

and not cure, and doctors can only advise;

If you've lost contact with your roots through the years of searching for fame,

wedging farther your connection, feeling like an orphan;

If you've succeeded in your career, rising to the top to the awe and admiration

of your colleagues, yet deep inside is a feeling of emptiness;

If you've reached retirement after all the years of work and its responsibilities,

but trapped in a dull, prosaic life of boredom;

If you've lost your loved ones, alone you gather the pieces of happy memories,

nostalgic they are the rest of your life;

If you've been a good and loving guardian to your own children and other children, and they call you dad or lolo, and feeling being young again;

Get out of your confine, find a place in nature, live with her beauty and bounty, 

her people and community, you may yet find the meaning of life. ~