Life intelligence

Recently, I got a good message on Whatsapp from one of our Chinese friends, that shared a subtle yet sobering thought. It said, an unborn child’s required nourishment is always provided by its mother, but as soon as he is born, it becomes his responsibility to draw life’s energy through various ways, to sustain life. We all are product of nature, and are sustained by its five elements, which are earth, water, air, fire and space. So we must realise that to sustain life, we must take proper care of Mother Earth, and the elements and find ways to stay connected. Too often modern technology is used in ways that satisfies our greed but brings a lot of harm to nature. Cultivation of genetically modified crops, injecting animals to harvest more flesh, or drawing out excess water and resources from Mother Earth are sad examples of human exploitation. Though now in my ripe old age of 84, I still enjoy learning more about computer science and artificial intelligence etc. from my11 year old grandson Adrian, who also enjoys flying airplanes as his hobby. Recently he came from U.S.A with his little sister Emma, and his parents to visit me. I thought of introducing him to a playful fun game with nature. Every morning sitting in the garden, in cool breeze, surrounded with flowers and chirping birds, I taught him one of my favourite childhood games – how to play a call and response game with a songbird and sing at a higher pitch than the bird till she responds! Just by mimicking it’s chirp, we were able to ‘play’ with the bird – a game which he enjoyed and practiced every day. Life flows like a river, with waves high and low, ready to fall back , and to be one. Every era brings something new to enrich life, but the whole of life has intelligence embedded within it and there’s nothing artificial about it.