Think Like A Mountain

     In a world where we are too busy with driving our cars and running our errands, we lose sight of what the world; what it does on it's own and how we interfere, how the squirrel benefits the world, or how every tree has it's own purpose. To think like a mountain is to observe life in it's entirety, and just the events we create.

     What this essay was about was a man who had killed a wolf; he was so busy with the desire to kill a wolf than what the wold means. As he watched the wolf die, he realized that the wold benefits the mountain. Every organism has a purpose and everything helps one another, even if it ends in another creature dying to serve as food for another. To kill a wolf merely for the pleasure and a story doesn't do anything for the mountain, or rather the ecosystem. We strive for what we call comfort, and at that is the cost of balance.

     I personally thought this essay was interesting; it gave a good perspective and new point of view on what we do and what kind of world we live in. If a wolf kills a deer, it helps the wolf and the deer; food and population control. It's how nature works. And if we come in and decide to kill the deer, then that's less food for the wolves. Or if we kill a wolf, then there goes a small fraction of the population control. Everything helps everything else, and we are really messing with the balance and what goes on by doing things for our own pleasure without a thought of the environment as a whole.