The notion, of being ‘more than the sum of your parts’ has permeated society during my lifetime, whether in secular training, or in general layman’s expressions, used to encourage people to ‘perk up’, and see themselves in a more positive light.
The above expression has much to offer to the concept of being, or walking in recovery from the pandemic, and or the chaotic world we now live in, of course the pandemic is really a large contributor to the chaos in the world, and the fall in the economy.
As I write I have a sense of people crawling around clutching at straws like someone who thought he was dead and finds himself awake in a large barn hungry and ready to eat dirt.Such an idea has meaning for the desperate situations we find ourselves in each day, and draws both supreme loving kindness, and greed and utter rottenness from within the societies we live in, such is the fight for survival , that the wish to live is very often in conflict with the desire to die and be done with it.
The stress of the pandemic and the fall of economy has anot’her sister, who is like a wicked witch mixing nasty potions in a large black pot, no one , she thinks has any idea what she is putting in there , but she could be wrong there’s always someone she’s a bit like the climate change, isn’t she? We may like to think we don’t know whats happening, but we do we just need to deny it sometimes to try to have a ‘normal’ life.
All things, and functions of living or ‘more than’ they seem often we drop what we know about them into our unconscious just we can get on with things not live with the horror so to speak, but it’s amazing, if we contain ourselves, stop and reflect on things we can see the other side and glean the positive meaning with the idea of ‘more than’. What if the man in the barn was able to quiet his desperate hunger for a moment he may suddenly become aware that their is a wrapped parcel of food on the barn window sill, and so his need is met!
More than the sum of the parts of a human being can mean we are not just a machine which keeps us living, but a complex mixture of body mind and spirit, it is the mind and spirit which enpowers us to dig deeper look for answers keep up the struggle.
For some persons ‘more than’ can become more than they can stand and then it can feel to late to dig down into lives meaning and find reasons to go on so while you can push through, if this is the case I hope you will grasp onto the other side of things stop see that there is more than one way to cope dig deeper.
In Agatha Christie’s novel ‘The mirror cracked from side to side’ it seems one of the messages from that title is that it’s the position you stand in which allows you to see what really is going on.
DIG FOR MEANING FIND THE TREASURE.
aoibheann thoughtful reflections 