The Power to Yield

The Power to Yield

          “The world is cruel”, “Life is unfair”, we hear people go on and on about how they feel this world is a mess. I don’t profess to be unlike them; I think so too. But for a moment, if you willed yourself to look beyond the apparent “mess”, you will come to see the grand work of art, the intricate mechanism that runs this world.

          So let me try to bring to light what I see behind this veil that hides the cogs that turn the cycle of life.

          The most famous law of nature known to everyone is “Survival of the Fittest”. The strong devour (in a sense more than one) the weak. That is how the food chain works. And this is one of the most disputed laws of nature; “how is this fair to those that are weak?” That’s what you’d like to think too, isn’t it?

          But ask yourself this: If everyone was strong, how bad would the conflict be? Being at the top of the food chain (both actually and metaphorically), we humans should know it the best. The truth is that the weak hold a far greater power than the strong: the Power to Yield.

          If the plants refused to be eaten, and deer refused to get hunted, we would have a rather untenable problem at hand. So I believe that a greater law is at play in nature, one that dictates that the weak must strive to survive, but must also know to yield to powers greater than their own, and the strong must respect that power to yield.

          I also specifically mean that one must yield only to power and never to evil. One must learn to differentiate between the two. So the next time you find yourself unable to do something about something you disagree with, stop blaming the world and remind yourself that greater powers are working schemes beyond your understanding, and trust in their ability to take the plain of the living to its next phase of existence.