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The problem with abundance
The crocs sitting in the lagoon have an issue sometimes eating all the food they have access to. In the tropics, waste is the thing, produce is easy, there are no winters, life is constantly giving. The wisdom of tropical civilization is different, and turns out all the great energetic-monument-building civilizations like the Egyptians and Mesoamericans, were tropical civilizations, they lived within the tropics were life, in short, is easy and abundant. It was them that influenced the peoples further north, the ones with winters, whom eventually, like barbarians, destroyed everything and lived off of raiding, raping and enslaving. They were better warriors because of the harshness their lands taught them to endure.
Harshness is then, scarcity, the mother of strong people. It was scarcity that invented the best dishes in cuisine, scarcity is what makes us be creative, solve problems and exponentially enjoy something when we do get to have a brief access to it. When you have too much of something, it becomes boring, you need to find creative ways to give it away, like offerings and sacrifices.
Today everything is turned around, we get a brief moment to enjoy how life would be if we were far enough into the path of abundance and living in nature in balance with abundance, in the tropics of course. We have to make the best of it with the little time we have. While we are here in the lagoon, we are free from the slavery of a system that paradoxically we must go back to and that allows us to have anything we want with apparently no scarcity.
Today will teach us the "spirituality" of letting go of things, offering our abundances, giving, sacrificing things, so that we can enjoy other things, so that we are free to enjoy life. Really, paying that mortgage, going the tax way, is that really going to bring you what you want? What do you want? The most precious thing to waste is your life, your time. Being conservative with your energy and resources will only bring you stagnation and forced sacrifice. It's better to live, it's better to give, to yourself, to others, to the now.