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The Earth


The earth; from sempiternal debates about whether it is round or flat, to sempiternal discussions of how to ameliorate the planet. Earth, is the only planet not named after a God but comprise more people who yearn nor seek a god, more than themselves. 

However, Earth is a querencia for a myriad of species, deemed living and non-living.
7.5 % of Earth, is the soil. The soil filters water, regulates the weather, and provides our plants with essential nutrients. It is the chief reason why the famous bible verse turned aphorism “You shall reap what you sow" became prevalent. In life, this aphorism elucidates the irrefutable fact that what most of us are oblivious to is that we shall use our time on Earth to plant the seeds we have and grow the trees that’ll produce the best fruit; ripe for feeding the future generations and beyond, and it is also incumbent upon us to ensure that we educate the next generations about the significance of maintaining those trees and keeping the soil fertile for the next seeds to be planted. 

On Earth, everyone has a devout obligation to fulfill before they depart from this world. We know  so many people who are established or are deemed enormously successful. Their biggest advice nor they often say their biggest secret is “hard work"; but hard work is hard. I believe it is the reason why it earned the term “hard work". We all have dreams of how we want to live our different lives, on Earth. We often dream and even daydream about our dreams, but achieving them is not akin to dreaming about them. Execution, is the most difficult task. That’s the art of it. That’s what makes life beautiful. Without struggle, life lacks pulchritude. 

Effort is what Earth needs from us. 

Most of us tend to make the biggest mistake of choosing to focus on our insufficiency, unfortunate events that take place in our lives and what’s not right; hence, we end up being querulous characters. We complain about the corporations that pollute our air and water for profit, we complain about unscrupulous politicians, we complain about our lives that aren’t going well and even blame the 10th grade maths teacher who told us we won’t achieve anything, we blame the ex who broke our hearts, we complain about the economy, we complain about being single or in a loveless relationship, we complain about our parents for not supporting our dreams and we complain about a myriad of other frivolous shit that won’t even help us succeed or reach our dreams. A wise man once said “In lieu of complaining about what’s not right, deviate your energy and focus on expressing utter gratitude for what’s right and fix what’s not right”. Many might have disparate reactions towards this aphorism, but these words of a great man are consanguineous to gold, to me. 

Our devout obligation on Earth, is to plant seeds of life on the soil we’re being given and also pass on the knowledge of life to the next generations to come, in order for planet Earth to be a querencia, albeit our time in the physical world is ephemeral. 

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