Watching I Am Legend
(yeah, a lot of my thoughts come when I am watching movies) and their portrayal
of what New York would look like after being abandoned made me think about
decay and entropy, and the natural way of things to fall apart when not cared
for.
Think of a city, and how
much work it takes to keep said city in working order. The thing that struck me
in I Am Legend was the grass growing everywhere. It turned every area where
there should have been nicely manicured lawns into fields you could lose a
horse in. How quickly would that have grown there, once there weren’t people
there to care for those areas? Nature takes over very fast when outside
influences cease.
That led me to think of
my life. How much maintenance my life needs in order to stay neat and ordered,
instead of turning into an overgrown field. And how quickly my nature, my sin
nature, takes over at those moments that I do not keep up with maintenance.
When I don’t pray as I should, or I don’t read my Bible as I should, I end up spiraling
downward, the weeds growing up to choke out the flowers and plants that I want
there.
The one part of the city
that it showed not being overgrown was the corn field, which he uses for food.
It was important, so he cared for it. If I looked at the spiritual aspects of
my life as food, as the very means to my survival (which they are), I would not
ignore them so easily.
Stepping back for a
while to look at my life, and see how overgrown it is. I think I need to do
some work, but that’s the first step, knowing that you need the work. Only when
you’ve realized the weeds are taking over can you do some maintenance.
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