Thinking along those lines, that at all times everything should be great, is as absurd as seeking to create Utopia. We have to “keep fit” in a great number of ways, and that can only be done by “exercising”. If I had had the career in architecture I had intended, and worked towards from 15 to 23 (and since), then no doubt a great deal of that would have been frustrating, even boring, and often I would have been obliged to do that which my heart was against. We need shadows. We indeed need “seasons” a “mixed diet” as this entire universe, us included, depends on dynamics. An example of that would be that it has been realised (thanks to experience) that astronauts who spend a period of time in space have to exercise or the salts in their bones that make them hard dissolve out. We used to think “strong bones”, thanks to a good diet in childhood, would remain “for the duration”. Not so, they need to be “loaded” and “stressed” so that the pressure precipitates out replacement salts as fast as those existing go back into solution. EVERYTHING is in dynamic equilibrium, so “use it or lose it” is most certainly one of the vital patterns within creation. I could tell you of so many, but not here, I am trying to keep this to 20 pages so that anyone will take it in one sitting. Maybe I’ll get round to doing a link to Patterns and go through some of them.
Continuing with free will not being a licence to do as you like it begins to be self evident that one of our current problems, the disintegration of society is due to the intrinsic relationships upon which (sustainable “ecosystems” also at a slightly smaller scale termed) “communities” rely (but I don’t want to use the word communities as it has been “done to death” as has “sustainable” but there isn’t one, as in I can’t think of one, and this “Word’s” thesaurus can’t either) have been repeatedly disrupted. Regarding Edge Lane as an example of a neighbourhood I know well, most of our neighbours had not only lived here for decades, they had lived here for generations, and in many cases “just a couple of doors away” were members of their extended families. Regarding where I lived in Devon, on a neighbouring farm the same family had lived there for 8 generations (by now probably nearing ten) and they were thus able to tell me when the canal leaked where the leak showed up, and how things had changed when first the canal had been built, (I think it was around 1840). Regarding Palestine and indeed back to the “Crusades” there is an attachment to land, to a place, and having committed to that place gradually relationships, good or bad, then accrue, moss gathers.
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