Take us the foxes, the little foxes, that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.
It's funny. Not laugh out loud funny. Just funny how many people focus on the little things in life. Mainly these are people in the first world. Too much idle time or time spent being able to focus on the little things when really what matters is the big things.
The important and not the urgent is what matters.
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| Sebastian Selgado and the Serra Pelada Gold Mine |
But shhhh! Don't tell this to many. With the luxury of time, and what a luxury that is, some waste it away worrying about the little things, letting the bigger things in life slip away without so much as a whisper. Time for a practical lesson.
I've put some images up, and I hope I can keep them up, that Sebastian Selgado took at the Serra Pelada gold mine in Brazil (full credit to him and original posters). Amazing images. He also gives an amazing TED talk - but some of the images he uses in the talk are confronting so be warned.
But the one thing I like about these images is that they are a reminder that there are some people who have no time for the little things. They only have time for the biggest thing of all: living.
There is no luxury of time, having the riches of being able to fight battles over little things. They can only fight for life itself. Imagine what they think of some of us who don't appreciate time. They must think that regardless of our bank account, we are the richest people in the world.
Who wants to spend the rest of their lives fighting over the little things, trying to control every outcome when we live in a world of no control or where control rests in the hands of others who you don't even know. That's trust. That's faith. And if you put trust in them why not others?
Every time you battle over a little thing, a small fox gets in and spoils the vine. If you realise it you can stop it and regrow it but if you don't then it may never regrow. It will wither.
Every battle has a casualty, every war a heavy price that lasts for far longer than the conflict itself. So ask yourself? Is this worth doing that for? Is it worth the casualties? Is it worth putting more hate into the world just to have your way? Is it worth letting the vine wither?
Perhaps it's time to look at images like these and realise it's time to stop those little foxes.
Or lest the next decision you have to make is how to get yourself out of a pit that you climbed down into in the first place.
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| Sebastian Selgado |
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| Sebastian Selgado and the Serra Pelada Gold Mine |
