Why is there such resistance...or fighting of nature and the natural way things simply are? Why does the dark green, evenly trimmed, lush lawn look desirable? Whilst a lawn left to its own devices, long, scraggly, uneven with weeds....or dare I say, wildflowers interspersed, is frowned upon?
And what is the difference between a "weed" and a "flower"?
They are all truly flowers, and beautiful in their own right. Methinks we call flowers "weeds" when they are wild, uninvited and unintended. Just look at the beauty of a single dandelion....the rich, bright yellow, the edible leaves, the root, once roasted that tastes like coffee. We have an almighty war against these flowers. I don't get it.
Maybe it's that peoples like to control things, wild things, like lawns, grass, animals, other people, own property and alter it to their suiting. Maybe there is this age old mob mentality to conquer and control, especially against nature and the wild. It strikes me as odd. I see the time and money people put in to their lawns...I have episodically done so myself. Now, I take a step back and away from conventional wisdom, hahahahahaha, and just wonder.
Peoples really like being mainstream, also. Have ya noticed? They have to have what everyone else has and do things like everyone else. Mainstream is a great, visual word.....all water molecules following the exact same path. Is that real? Is it good? Is it purposeful?
Not to me. I was born far outside the box. I was punished, cajoled and berated for not following the beat of the mainstream drum. I don't question my autistic reality so much, as I question that of the non-autistic. I don't see my self as the one out of line, or removed from reality. I see me as seeing things and people for what they are.
Nature is honest, true, ever changing and completely in charge. I think everyone is here, in this life, to discover and nurture and accept their own individual nature. See, there is no mainstreaming the autistic. We write our own rule books...sigh....and oft pay dearly for being unable to or refusing to conform to something we are not.
Non-autistics are free to continue to conform, follow in their predicessors foot prints and continue to fight against the power of Nature and hide who they truly are inside.
I will never color inside the lines.
Everyone has the right to decide how they live their life.
I'm just sayin'
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