What is the weight of a falling leaf? How does it change its trajectory? Does it impact me?
Not all questions have answers. Or they do. Sometimes we have to look for the root of the problem; without forgetting where we come from. The beginnings. Those memories are part of our past and define us. Like the chords of a song that we no longer like; the basis of melodies that we now sing at the top of our lungs.
The origins. I like to remind myself where I come from. The primordial roots are not the ones that go the farthest, but they support the tree and helped it to develop. To this day, we are all in the calyptra - a conical structure that is responsible for breaking through the damp, dark soil.
It turns out that it is in that environment of apparent non-conformity that there is the most growth. And it is irregular because it depends on nutrients, irrigation, and external light, which they do not perceive but which, undoubtedly, is their way of life. At that point, one decides which way to go. And, yes, you don't have to look so much to the pain of the past to recall worse (or better) moments. You don't want to stay there and rot. Nor do you want to project yourself into an uncertain future; when you hit a rock, you'll get around it and (as always) keep surfing your limits.
What is the weight of a falling leaf? A caress. Or a lead. Because context is everything. Because broadly speaking, how you are affected by something depends on who you are. And at a smaller range, within who you are, circumstances are going to affect how it impacts you too. All of this is wonderful when you accept it. When you internalize it. When you assume that we are the way we are and that includes an innate and indivisible conceptual difference; to life, to love, to pain.
Some people say they don't want to change. And it is a shame to close the range of sight so much. To remain at the mercy of a type of substratum instead of becoming flexible and finding your own freedom in the freedom of others.
What a complicated universal justice. "Finding in the freedom of others your own." Like a candle that is lit during the 47 minutes of a Vivaldi concerto. A symphony of heat, a dance of flames that I do not know how to explain but that I appreciate for the freedom it offers me. Is accepting that fire burns and gives us life on the same essential plane as assuming that we all have virtues and defects?
And I am uneasy when I deny myself these ideas that I write here; when I do not oxygenate myself and I focus on the stone instead of on the path that I am going to take so that it does not slow me down. But I return to myself; to writing, to nature, to music. These three muses tell me as I type, in whispers and voices, that there is no stone. That it's just harder ground and that it's part of being a calyptra, not always easy and less the further you go.
Origins. I like to remind myself where I come from. But I stay more with where I am and that takes me to a fullness that I can not define.