Come to my lawn! LOL. I have been throwing down lime all summer to kill off the moss. My neighbor and husband think I am nuts, because in their view it is green and you don’t have to mow it.
Meanwhile, I share your awe of nature. I am fascinated at how patterns repeat in nature. I saw a film documentary about Prince Charles and his incredible enthusiasm and efforts in the sphere of recycling, reusable energy, and nature in general. Within the movie there was a piece about patterns in nature and using them to make more efficient tools, tools of flight, and other things. For me it reinforced a feeling that we are all connected with each other and nature. People usually talk about that in a spiritual sense, but for me, my first feeling of that was many years ago in High School learning that all living things are made from the same genetic material just the DNA is in different sequences and longer or shorter strands. Plants, animals, humans are all sequences of CTAG. It is miraculous to me. I don’t believe in God, but I find that piece of knowledge makes feel like life is boundless, and spectacular, and I feel it more and more as I get older.
But, that is not my most recent event that has happened, your story just triggered me to think of that one, as it was quite significant to me.
The most recent is more of an interpersonal thing. I had a series of things happen close together that really drove home I can’t please everyone. I am the social chairperson for a club we belong to, so there is always someone annyed with some event (although overwhelming I get positive reinfircement) and a couple weeks ago my MIL was visiting (it went well overall) but the two things combined have officially changed my world view in that I am going to be more selfish going forward, listen to my gut, and care less about the static (other people’s voices) around me.
One other thing that recently happened was for whatever reason I recently had an aha moment about spending money. Generally I am very careful with money, but a few months ago I was struggling with a money decision, and my husband did something where he suddenly spent a lot of money on something, and now I kind of feel like f$&k it, I am not going to stress about possibly wasting some money.