Life Cycles

Every part of life, and everything that is influenced by life, has its own rhythm.

Understanding that lets us work with it to the best advantage.

As people, by nature we may have particular times of the day when we function best and when we might be better off just taking a nap.

Each person’s rhythm is different.

 So are the rhythms of animals. So are the comings and goings of customers in a store. (It’s amazing how often customers tend to come into a store in a group and leave in a group. How do we humans know to do that?  There must be a kind of social rhythm too!)

So does money.

Because money comes and goes based on what people do with it, it is most valuable if, once you put the money in an investment, you leave it there, for better or worse.  What goes down will come up, as long as the companies you are investing in are sound.

Companies cycle too, based on what kind of business they are and how they are handled.

It’s fear itself that can be our own worst enemy, and banks and the stock market can reap the results of it.

If everyone panics at the same time and takes out all their money, the institutions we take them from have nowhere to go, nothing to hold them up.

We have “killed” them, all by ourselves, just by reacting out of fear!

Balance

If nature has been programmed to have rhythm, it has also been programmed to have balance.

Gory as it seems to me, certain animals are programmed to eat certain other animals, which keeps each population down so that no one species overpopulates any given area or starves or forces out any other group.

We can fool around with nature, accidentally or on-purpose introducing species from other places into our own country, and can totally mess up the balance of nature.

God seems to have given almost every kind of animal both a male and female (not all), and arranged for interaction between us to be a necessary part of life. We balance each other out.

Men and women, while all human beings, are fundamentally different in drive, perspective and purpose. Our responses to things, if misunderstood, can wreak havoc in a relationship between us.

If understood, however, and arranged in such a way that the best features of each are relied upon by the other and the worst features of each person are covered by the other, together man and a woman can be a much stronger force than either would be by himself or herself.

To me, that is part of what I see as the value of marriage. It’s part of a balance of nature that we human beings need in society as well as in marriage, and in money as well as in society.