Pilate's Box

im just someones weird sister

one of the dopest and most affirming beliefs i ever picked up was the idea that everything has life or an essence of life within it like everything, down to the wooden chair sitting on the porch because you need wood to make it and the wood comes from trees and trees are living things and because energy cannot be destroyed, only transferred, a bit of that living energy goes into the things you make with wood from that tree. like genuinely acknowledging all things around you as living because what isn’t bacteria? we’re all like a collection of bacteria as it is and it’s everywhere all the time and will be until the end of time. it isn’t even about believing in god or divinity, it’s just believing in the idea that everything around you is worthy of some kind of respect and sanctity and dignity because it is just as alive as you are and i think if you lack a basic, fundamental belief in something like that, it’s so much easier to pollute the oceans and raze entire forests like if it doesn’t matter, why keep it? why be a guardian for it?