How would be this world without a rule? Can you imagine that?
The songs say: "The rules we made are meant for breaking them".
Well, maybe it's right. Haven't you ever felt like breaking a rule?
"Don't step here", "Don't come on in after the 19:00 o'clock", "Don't do it", "Do it".
That's very boring. Sometimes we're caught in so many rules that we start to think they are normal, natural; that they're born together with us and not the reverse. Back there, many thousands of years ago, there were rules; they were created and there was not a good reason for that. Quite the reverse again. The rules were made after the very bad acts of the human beings.
You don't see usually: "Water, run only down river." Or "Trees, do not lose your leaves before autumn." Or even: "Fishes, don't walk out of the ocean, please." But you can easily find: "Do not swim in the deep water." Or "Watch your step, wet floor." Or else: "Do not enter.", "Class dismissed only when the alarm goes out."
Did you get it? The human beings live in a same world together many other beings, but only us follow the written rules. Only us, the humanity, have created an "ABC book" to do the basics, to live - alone or in society.
It doesn't matter, the fact is that the rules were made from the moment when a bad act was "discovered". "Fleurs du mal"
It was written:"Thou shalt not kill" . But how could exist such a law if no one had done that before?
Killed. Someone killed, someone filled the rules. Someone stole, someone wrote a law against that. Someone called names, someone ran and placed a rule for not to do that again. But how to expect anything good from rules made after the bad acts? The bad acts were faster than any rule, they're inside the human beings before any other rule. They're a lifestyle. Just as the fishes don't need any law to be conduced up river in order to lay their eggs, the human beings shouldn't have to write any law in order to follow the basic principles of life and of how to live by. It has to be from within. As long as it isn't, the rules can't establish anything but the chaos. People doing things whose principle's not inside of them. The rules mean a world awfuly bad, as long as there'll be rules whenever the bad acts have been already commited.
From the most basics to the most sofisticated lines, like the virtual crimes. The Internet is particularly a new stuff in our hustly ancient world, and how many laws have been already written for it? But notice, all of them occurred after some strange or irregular act. After a private hackery, after a break of informations, after someone has been "smart" and has found a way to infiltrate an "error code" in the system. So it is just downhill. The people follow the stream, do the wrong thing and crack! The rules are there. Just wait and see. And the worst part is that they're not worth a thing. They're good for nothing. What's a law worth for against a whole wrong stream? If the river goes up, back to the fountain, how can the sea write a law demanding the water to follow back towards it? And, in a short there'll be not even a drop of water in the whole sea. And that's all? No, what would happen along the way? The dry, the animals all dead, the fishes, the air without rain, without O2... The tides, the balance of the Earth, the moon, the atmosphere, the rotation, the cicle of life. Everything destroyed, a chaos without measure. Everything due only to the river that decided to run backwards. And the birds discussed, and the seas voted, the bears wrote and the rules were clear: "No river shall run back to the fountain." But who cares? The rivers found out another lifestyle: To run upwards. So funny that was. No salt water when meeting the sea, no hard work and evaporation along the way, no stinky fish to stream together. Only the refreshing and small fountain quite near where they were created. So easy, so better. Which rule can be worth, can make the river change its mind? But luckly, the river has never found out its egoistic part. It has never developed a lazy character. It has never been cruel or weak. Thus, there're no rules clued in the trees, there's no a "jungle code" out there in the forests. There's only cooperation, good will and a lot of responsibility. Everyone serving to a common porpose: To live in harmony. That's the only and very first rule. And it doesn't need to be written anyplace. It doesn't need to be created or imposed. But it was the first one which the human being broke. The natural rule. So, how can the other ones be accepted and understood if they were created after the evilness?
What can we do?
The rules are already there, but they do not command our lives.
Pay attention to yourself, at least once, and see what's wrong and what's right.
We don't need any rule to be right.
We already know what's right or wrong.
Picking up a side, you're not breaking a rule when you're at the wrong side. You're acting like the first one who did that before the rules were made. And you just proved that you are not whole within. The first thing you've broken has been yourself.

Patricky Field

July 20th, 2007