Follow Your Heart

Follow Your Heart

Posted by Mita on July 17, 2011 in books, life,

There are moments when I feel doubt about the things I have done (although I did most of them with excitement) and the things I want to do. There is a day when I found my self as a stranger in the city where I live.

Sometimes I envy those planets wandering in their orbits without doubt, no matter how vast the universe is and how far they have to travel. The planets are very certain of what they are and they know where they are going.

I haven't packed my bag, I can’t sleep and I give up to force my self to do so. I decided to read a piece of Susanna Tamaro’s writing.  There is a part  from her book titled "Follow Your Heart" that I really like to read, again, again and again….

“Take care of yourself. As you grow up you’ll often get the urge to change things, to right wrongs, but every time you do remember that the first revolution, the first and the most important, has to take place within yourself. Fighting for an idea without having an idea of yourself is one of the most dangerous things you can do.

Every time you feel lost, confused, think about trees, remember how they grow. Remember that a tree with lots of branches and few roots will get toppled by the first strong wind, while the sap hardly moves in a tree with many roots and few branches. Roots and branches must grow in equal measure, you have to stand both inside things and above them, because only then will you be able to offer shade and shelter, only then will you be able to cover yourself with leaves and fruit at the proper season.

And later on, when so many roads open up before you, you don’t know which to take, don’t pick one at random; sit down and wait. Breathe deeply, trustingly, the way you breathed on the day you came into the world, don’t let anything distract you, wait and wait some more. Stay still, be quiet, and listen to your heart. Then, when it speak, get up and go where it takes you.” -Susanna Tamaro -

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Constellation

Constellation

Posted by Mita on July 06, 2011 in constellation, star,

I don’t remember the last time I stared at the stars and I think I have forgotten the joy of looking at them. Perhaps the bright city light at night and the giant buildings hide their glitter from my eyes or maybe it’s me who ignore them.

It’s been a long time, indeed.

When I was a little girl I rarely missed the chance of staring at the stars. I think, in a little village where I grew up, no light could beat them. The place was far away from the sparkling giant buildings. The only big buildings  found were a church and a mosque without so many lights as the heart of believers coming at night is more than enough to shine those buildings.

When I was little, stars meant  hope, a simple hope for a little girl to go outside, to find Orion and Crux. I knew where to find them.

It’s been a long time, indeed.

This night I found myself lost under the night sky. I don’t remember where to find Orion and Crux. I don’t even know what the stars mean to me.

If you look at the sky tonight, perhaps we are staring at the same constellation. You know what, when we look at the stars, we are looking at the past as some of them were probably dead as their lights reach our eyes.

I want to tell you a quote from  Exuperey, “People have stars, but they aren’t the same. For travelers, the stars are guide. For other people they are nothing but tiny lights, for scholars they are problems….”

I let them be a mystery. How about you?

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Science

Science

Posted by Mita on July 06, 2011 in Science,

I read a book entitled "12 Books that Changed the World" written by Melvyn Brag. From this book, I knew that Michael Faraday, a British scientist, who contributed to the field of electromagnetism, has never patented anything. He saw his role as being a reader of the book of nature, written by the finger of God, in which He gave us general knowledge for all humanity. 

I am impressed and I wonder if any scientist that share the view like Faraday exist in this century.

I suppose that the current economic system does little to encourage the development of "good scientists". Somehow, the system does not provide us with the opportunity to contemplate the reality, that it is not money that makes the world go round but moral values and faith in God. 

Large corporations have learned how to exploit scientists and in many cases, the scientists themselves feel unable to resist the lure of corporate gold, as frequently their research is originated, directed and funded by such corporations. 

When I had a respiratory disease, the price of medicine was more hurtful than the hurt of the medical condition. I tried to find a suitable alternative in natural medicine which exists but the related research according to "modern medicine" is less well developed/known and thus rarely used by doctors (who are often part of the health business as well as the health care system). I reluctantly took pharmacy drug which resulted in my financial crisis and unpleasant bloated tummy side effects. I truly believed that my respiratory problem could have been be cured by alternative approach, which would have been more natural and less expensive, but I just gave up too easily. 

Today, we need more people like Faraday as the world's problems are worsening and the public needs are increasingly being  directed by entirely maximum profit oriented corporations. The word  "optimum" seem to have been forgotten, or has been conveniently "re-designed" as meaning "maximum output for minimum input". 

The economic system does influence the scientist's work but do we really  believe in sustainability or is it merely yet another example of "political spin?"

Do we care enough about not only our own future but for that of those to come, to make the necessary changes in terms of use of us as scientists, consumers and global citizens? 

Sometimes, I am afraid that we lack of the essential courage and will to change and therefore, we act no better that the corporations whom we say must change. 

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