31 July 2009

The world as we know it is interconnected; My alarm sounds at 6:45am, I reach over to turn it off and then I sit up, inhale and exhale, and limp to the kitchen for a glass of water. After I swallow my first libation of the day and emanate carbon dioxide, the plants in my apartment utilize my breathe along with the energy from the early morning sunlight, the atmosphere’s oscillating oxygen, and the most crucial natural resource on this plant, water, to form simple sugars. These sugars help to build the plant’s main structural components. The same process happens with all plants that my human body consumes, as well as the remaining population of herbivores and omnivores on planet Earth. This cycle of consuming living organisms belonging to the Kingdom of Plantae is consistent with humans, animals, aquatic life, insects, etc. So, in essence consumers of plants are not only consuming the fore mentioned living organisms but the end result of the Sun’s strapping energy, the perpetual process of precipitation, condensation, and evaporation. Even carnivores benefit from this vital process by consuming other species that devour plants. However, interconnectedness goes beyond air, water, animals, plants, and consumption. It encompasses cognition, sentience, consciousness, imagination, contemplation, reality, life, death, and the cosmos. Interconnectedness is so vast and so intertwined that is truly impossible to sum up in a mere snippet of words, especially words compiled by me. The easiest way to understand interconnectedness is to breath, smile, and live.