Having just been gardening this morning and cut down a box hedge which had taken about thirty years to grow (SORRY!) ..it caused me to think about why it is so much easier and faster to destroy things than to build or grow them.
I thought about the millions of years it has taken people to evolve to today and the sad reality that our generation has developed technology that could destroy us all in a matter of days. It's mind boggling, really.
I thought about how trust is built up over years between people, yet can be broken in an instant. About paintings that take years to be created, yet can be damaged in a second....houses that are built over generations yet can be destroyed by fire in a night.
And most everything of value, it seems, is so slow in appearing, yet so vulnerable and can be damaged so quickly.
So, what does that say to me ?
To take care of what is building in my life, and to be very careful and protective to look after what's there...else, by being careless either in my attitude or actions, something precious get's lost.
Particularly in a time when so much of our world is full of the 'throw away' and the expendable.
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