The thing for us human beings about a
force
of nature, is that it's one of the many things (after it's all
said and done) which are simply
what's so
about
our world.
For the most part, there's
nothing
much we can do about a
force
of nature. Whether we
resist
it or don't like it or whether we agree with it or like it makes
no difference to it at all. It's not swayed by our
opinions,
no matter how well-articulated they may be. Trying to manipulate it
is
futile,
and failure to manipulate it is naïvely blamed for
unhappiness.
Hurricanes and
earthquakes
don't follow any of our notions of what's fair, what's good for
everyone, or what's right. Try tell the dinosaurs all about how
fair, good, and right a meteor strike on
our planet
in their Cretaceous period, was. See if they agree with you (it
made them extinct). Tell the meteor how unfair, bad, and wrong its
extinction event causing behavior is - then watch to
see if it
listens,
gets your point, reconsiders, relents, and alters its course
next
time. See if it cares a hoot about what you think.
Just like
forces
of nature like
hurricanes and
earthquakes
and meteors, the weather is another example of a
force
of nature. The weather is what it is and (also, at any
particular moment in time) it isn't what it isn't. While each of us
may have weather related preferences (I certainly do: I personally
prefer mild weather to blistering hot weather and freezing cold
weather), it really doesn't matter (or make any difference)
what our weather preferences are. "I don't like it
when it
rains" is a
preference with no power.
Why
doesn't it matter what our weather preferences are? Because the
weather is always the way it is, and it isn't the way it isn't.
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So ...
if you say "It's a wet and wintery day - luckily I love the
rain", then I say
"If you love the weather the way it is (and the way it isn't),
you'll always have weather you love.".
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