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Monday, March 08, 2004
Bonding
By Orlando P. Carvajal
Uncut gems
THOSE of us who play solitaire know that the game does not stack up completely all the time. It rarely does, and works out only some of the time. Most times, one gets stuck and must start all over again.
We realize, of course, that for a game of solitaire to come to a full conclusion, each card must be at the right place at the right time. Each card is important. It takes only one card (and it does not matter which) not to be in place for the game to bog down. That is how each card bonds, is tied up, with every other card in the deck.
There is another example of bonding in electrical connections. You can have the best, the most expensive electric appliance or machine but it is not going to work if the wire connecting it to the power source is cut or missing a strand no matter how small. You must have a perfect bond between the wires before the appliance can function.
These examples are a reflection of life in our cosmos. There is a basic unity in the universe. Things will only work out the way they are supposed to if there is perfect bonding of all its parts. Among men, when the bonding is not perfect there is discord and unhappiness in all concerned. In marriage, for instance, if the bonding is not there, the marriage will fail. In families, if the bonding is not there children will become a problem to the parents or vice-versa. In the office, if the bonding is not there, no teamwork is possible and the output of the group will be far from ideal. Among nations, if the bonding is not present, you get war. Yet, even war requires bonding or unity. In war, each of the warring parties has to be united in their desire to cut each other’s throats.
Each of us, therefore, is like a card in a deck. We all have to be at the right place at the right time for our fellowman, our husband or wife, our child, our friend, our co-worker, even our enemy. We are like that missing strand of wire that is needed to bond the connecting wire together so that a machine or an appliance will work.
The recent El Niño and La Niña phenomena show how this need for unity works out in nature. Every tree that is cut and not replaced destroys the bonding by so much. Multiply this a million times all over the world and you have your ecological balance badly in need of restoration. Without this balance, you have global warming. You have droughts one day and floods another, opposite extremes that are the logical signs of imbalance. Even nature, especially nature, has to be one. Everything in it must be in its proper place at the right time. Otherwise, nature will go berserk and destroy instead of being the wonderful resource it is meant to be for life on earth.
The rash, for instance, of dengue fever in the country is no accident. It is nature going back at us for keeping stagnant pools of putrid water right in our backyards. It has to do also with the way we do not dispose of garbage properly. If we pollute the earth, it is not the Martians who will get sick but we earthlings.
We cannot go wrong working for unity among men. We cannot go wrong working for the preservation of the environment, of the ecological balance of nature. Without bonding, things are not going to work out right. When that happens, there is no peace, there is no happiness among men.
(March 8, 2004 issue)
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