I’m not making an argument. I’m learning to identify with a bigger picture for my sanity.

My heart weeps greatly for all of the species that are going extinct on this planet.

And I find some hope that life itself will continue here, even if it’s not complex life. Life has survived extinction events before. Life is adaptable.

I’m trying to be less attached to the form life takes, because I can’t stop climate change.

So it’s something that gives me peace. It’s not an argument that what is happening is right. Because it’s not.

I have a kid too, and it eats at me.

But I find comfort in the fact that life will carry on, even if my kid can never have the future I hoped for him when he was born.

It’s what gives me some comfort. Taking a larger perspective than just worrying about how humanity will fair.

Civilization doesn’t equal the world. Life will carry on and heal from the damage us ‘smart apes’ have done in our hubris.

There’s six realms in Buddhism, one is where the Indian Gods live.

And they pay homage to the Buddha. Because he transcends all realms. Even theirs.

He also let go of all attachment. King, God, he was beyond those things.

So he spent his life teaching the way of understanding and compassion,because he was not attached to himself. And if you’re not attached to yourself, why do you care if your king or not?