SYSTEM OF INTERCONNECTIVITY

Cyclical systems surround you and control your world. You are surrounded by cyclical systems pertaining to humans, non-humans, and even inanimate objects. Some include life (birth, food/energy consumption for survival, waste removal, rest, waking, procreation, death), recycling of human-used material (use, sort, dispose, transportation and reanimation of material, reuse). recycling of Nature-used material (use, disposal via burying/burning, breaking down of material, readmission into Nature's cycle as minerals/particles/ashes, resurrection of material for reuse), learning (studying new material, learning it, using it, passing it on), aging (newly born, youthfulness, maturity, seniority), cosmology (birth of stars, burning of stars' gasses/energies, burnout/death), seasons (spring, summer, fall, winter [or any other cycle of seasons various geographical areas have], and dust systems such as the one perpetuating the migration of millions of tons of dust (and quadrillions of microbes) that cross the ocean from Northwestern Africa annually to give nutrients to crops across the world, including Florida.

Write a full, one-page paper on five other cyclical systems which are not obvious in your world.

For a minimum of 20 minutes, relax and contemplate (do not write) the vastness of these systems, and of Nature, and all of existence with all its interconnected systems. Ponder how you fit as a variable, an ingredient in this main, overarching, parent system, as well as your impact on other humans in this grand system and the domino effect created from all the small and large things you do in it (e.g. yelling/swearing at someone, cutting someone off in traffic, smiling at a passerby, holding the door for a stranger, giving your seat to one in need, giving two dollars to a homeless person, hiring someone with no experience but with a clear drive for learning the business, sending someone a kind old-fashioned letter in the mail of how you appreciate him/her, teaching someone your expertise for an hour for free, etc.).