Whole. There’s a concept
for you!
WWW seems to suggest that,
doesn’t it? Those little letters are a claim of total inclusion – the world
wide web - as though the whole planet were wrapped up nicely together in
one mind, sharing knowledge and experience. But it’s not whole really, not the web
nor the world. The silent masses get on with their lives, many of them
oblivious to the frenetic workings of the internet, their voices not included
in the ‘all’ of it all.
As for the planet, it grows
further from whole the more humanity encroaches onto every last ice floe and
ocean crevice. One has to wonder how much the system can take before some
critical point of imbalance occurs to plunge us into an end game scenario.
Wholeness is not on our agenda.
Personally though, despite
the sad bad news of worldly woe, we can still be whole, right? We can find
ourselves, satisfy ourselves, improve ourselves and please ourselves as long as
we don’t hurt someone else. Or are we incomplete until we look outside of
ourselves? They say everyone has a soul mate, someone who will complete them...
two loves make a whole. That’s what they say, but in the end won’t we still
have to leave the earth alone?
Perhaps what counts is the
heart. Being whole-hearted is a wholeness anyone, even half-wits, can achieve.
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