We are inevitably interlocked, interdependent — how do we influence each other?

Question from the Internet:

“How do you understand Dr. Jane Goodall’s quote “You cannot get through a single day without having an impact on the world around you. What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of a difference you want to make.”?”

Especially today, when we already became conscious about the globally integrated, interdependent world we evolved into — more precisely we always lived in but we weren’t aware — it is clear that the so-called “butterfly effect” works with full force.

Whether we want it or not, whether we comprehend it or now, with every action, even though and intention, we inevitably influence the world around us. And not only those close to us, but the whole Natura system through mankind.

It is like wading into the water, inevitably causing a ripple effect as we move, except that at this stage we are still not fully aware of, we cannot see the ripples we are causing all through the system.

If we recognized, realized this total integration, interdependence we would immediately freeze from the horror, seeing what we are inevitably causing to everybody, since inherently all of our actions, thoughts, and intentions are by default selfish, exploitative, self-serving, and self-justifying.

We are without any doubt acting, behaving like cancer as long as we blindly follow our instincts.

THus being frozen, stopping any movement, thinking in order to stop the negative ripple effects is the first step. This “pause in the instinctive, constant war against others” is already a step ahead and this pause gives us the opportunity to learn how to watch ourselves “from the side” and examine before each action before each thought what intentions do we have.

Do we still want to use, exploit others for our own selfish sake?

Or did we already learn, acquire some capability to use at least part of our desires for the sake of others, to build and keep a general balance in the system?

This is a process we cannot even hope to achieve on our own, but in the right, purposeful, mutually committed, mutually supportive, and mutually complementing environment we can learn how to reverse everything from a selfish, cancer-like direction towards a selfless, life-giving, life-sustaining direction, becoming benevolent cells, facilitators in the system.