We are all loving creative beings, right?

As a human being, I emerge from oneness, nature, and will eventually merge back into oneness. In that interim, how can I explore what I have to do and then actually do it? It may all sound vague and big but every time I point out that my vocation is to work for a human- and earth-worthy society, those around me nod in agreement. Who can be against a human- and earth-worthy society?

“What I lovingly created is what is truly meaningful and what I ultimately leave behind. That is the essence for me.”

All I can think of in my imagination are greedy aliens who see our planet as a resource and humans as rampant pests who consume everything with their own extinction as the outcome. I think we as humans have evolved in such a way that we possess the ability to destroy that planet out of gain and at the same time want to preserve the planet out of a desire to keep the planet habitable for our descendants. Unfortunately, destroying goes at a faster rate than preserving.

“I am learning to burden my environment with less and less. My waste flow is decreasing in word and gesture.” 

Until not too long ago, I used to end my posts and comments on social media with: Be a good ancestor. I found the imperative necessary back then, now I understand that the raised finger doesn't work and am coming to realise that it is better to invite people to think about good ancestry. Therefore, I now ask you the question: Are you a good ancestor? To answer that question for yourself, it is important to first empathise with what good ancestry is. For me, it is that in everything you do now, you think about its consequences seven generations from now. How you act, how you vote, how you eat, how you live and how you connect yourself to others while remaining part of living together. You ask yourself: what positive and negative effects will my actions have in the long term?

I have lost faith in politics because our current system is based on the short term. I no longer see idealists who dare to look beyond their own lives in the political arena. And I deliberately call it an arena, the political game in my eyes has degenerated into a cheap way of entertainment with the major disadvantage that every reign means human lives and a degradation our planet and living environment. So I ask myself: what could our society look like if we put human- and earth-worthy coexistence first? 

“I try to focus and look for who I am, what I can do and what I want. With the aim of using that to give meaning to my environment and therefore my own life. In that search, I get to know my fears, make choices where I keep having doubts and investigate where my self-rejection comes from. I investigate where these feelings come from so I can recognise them next time and act differently.”

In living humanely, I start from a universal longing, a longing I recognise in every human being, for well-being, meaning and connection. That longing, I believe, serves the individual, the free person, and coexistence in general. Like everyone else, I need a roof over my head, I need healthy food to live a vital life. I want to do something that I am inspired by and that contributes to society. And I want to do that in a safe environment where I can take refuge, where I find warmth and hear, see and value myself and others.

I am also aware we as humans are a part of nature, the laws of the earth therefore also apply to me. In nature, everything is a part of a larger whole. The part cannot come into its own without the whole and the whole cannot function without the self-governing parts. When part and whole are in right proportion then there is integration. I think this balance between self-reliance (part) and togetherness (whole) is important for living together. I notice that without this balance, our mutual contradictions are on the rise.

In nature, everything is circular, construction and destruction alternate. I connect with other people and also disconnect again, I gain new insights and also wander off regularly, I create value and also break down value.

The disadvantages we have been experiencing for some time due to climate change are because the load-bearing and restorative capacity of the earth and our society are not in balance. In society, I see depression, loss of meaning and burnout as signs of that imbalance.

I am increasingly asking myself what natural growth and pace actually means? Is it the growth and pace at which the quantum computer computes, the speed at which I can generate answers online or the speed at which we mine and burn all natural resources? If everything around me is going too fast then I drop out and I don't think I am alone in that.

In nature, the life-death-life cycle is visible everywhere. Emergence and death alternate. In my experience, something that dies makes room for something new.

I also see the need for diversity around me and in nature. When something proliferates and takes over everything, it dies again when there is nothing left to overgrow. A one-sided culture turns out not to work and can only be imposed by totalitarian oppression.

I imagine that the desire for well-being, meaning and connection combined with the laws of nature can form the starting points for human- and earth-worthy coexistence for all generations to come. It is up to us to explore, play and experiment with each other in equality to arrive at a new free, equal and society. By seeing growing up as a lifelong learning process in which I get to know myself better and better and to see the world for what it is. And that, for me, is the basis for working together in good harmony to live together, as loving creators. In doing so, I see community power as the human energy source we can generate in each other and with which, from our diversity, we can form a whole as a part with everything that lives. I invite you to meet me in this.

Are you a good ancestor?