"Keteng" - "Different" - "Diverso"

“Happy be the one who’s different,

Being that one truly different,

But woe to whom is different,

Being that one truly common”

Meditating on “difference” may often lead to paradoxical conclusions; initially one may be led to consider such word as a meaning, a significance, a concept, which presents itself as an attribute, namely a quality, that can inhere to an entity and increase its informative content, and therefore could apparently be subject to a definition or a description.

And yet, such quality paradoxically finds its existential foundation in the antithetic concept of absence; namely, it appears to come to life only when considered in the context of a relation of inherency, within which the “different” marks the estrangement and distance from something other, which instead is independently defined regardless of any attributes; therefore "difference" doesn’t actually appear to be adding anything new to the object it means to describe and enrich as an adjective, but only represents something through “deprivation”, or through “litotes”. Hence it represents a special type of attribute, which appears not to enrich a subject of inherence, seeing it solely takes shape within the contrast with something that on the contrary, is determined by itself; Yet, it is in this event that the true capacity of “difference” is unveiled: in contrast. However such concept mustn’t necessarily be understood in the common meanings of “conflict”, “clash” or “opposition”, instead it would be more convenient to observe that what truly springs from contrast, is “visibility”; namely, the emersion of something “different”, highlighted by another entity which is stable and definite, hence “common” in its perception and cognition, which unconsciously illuminates an entity that differs, through contrast; while what is common, often seems to become less visible.

Given this quite abstract and general reflection about the conception of “difference”, I believe the poetic lines at issue find more value and appropriate setting within the human ambient, in society, community and collectivity. In this anthropological environment, it is also required to underline that the notion of “different” is profusely impregnated with relativism: what is different in the eyes of some, may be common in the eyes of others, and vice versa. This idea is essential to comprehend one an other with humility.

In truth, I think the fundamental fulcrum of “being Different” resides in the conscience of one’s uniqueness and specific subjectivity, gifted by birth, which makes each individual fundamentally different from all others. While Happiness, resides in the footstep that follows the awareness of one’s uniqueness, namely in the acceptance of one’s own “being different”, combined with a coherent and consistent integrity in the way of living such reality, and also with bravery, a virtue which is necessary given what has been previously said: “being different” means being more visible, and being more visible may implicate being more Vulnerable, unless one heartens up proudly letting the difference be one’s primary source of strength. Moreover, one's bravery and consistency are needed to oppose against the tendency to be molded by external influences which intend to conform and even out the “different”, by means of creating canons, models, systems, constructions that aspire to order and arrange in the perspective of the “common”, the conventional, namely what doesn’t stand out anymore, what can be tamed by the masses, what is no longer to be feared by the sheep. In conclusion, Woe, trouble, resides in the hypocrisy and falsehood of an individual whom yields to said influences, rebuking his own specific “difference” which specially distinguishes said person by principle, for motives of benefit, need, or worst, fear of one’s own unique vulnerability in relation to the powerful leveling action of the “common” lawmaker; and despite one’s own cowardly betrayal, such “common individual”, conformed to the common regime, still declares to be worthy of note, special and “different”, revealing in this manner, the secret regret and remorse to have lost that extraordinary vulnerability, that incomparable and sole feature that makes our existence worthy of being dwelled.

"Dedicated to the One whom made Difference her Core"

The Wild

The wild is the utmost fair and righteous reality,

for it evenly renders savage and loving equality,

 through divine impartiality.

Life of a "True Earthling"

The Earthling and Music

The vulnerable one, becomes a pliable instrument, longing to participate in enchanting sounds within which it’s embraced, to engage in the melody’s unity in some form, to bring serenity to a spirit craving for peace.

At times it only listens, passively healed by the Music, tuning into the melodies, which prevent the tormented spirit from dangerously exhaling outwardly from the body, and cleanse the spirit’s wounds from its anguishing afflictions…

At times it listens, but also participates within the melodies through vocal chants, and a carnal flow of the body along the rhythm, thus not only the spirit is healed passively, but is further more empowered through active involvement within the therapy of sounds…

At times, the body listens, the voice chants and the limbs pursue along, and one may also generate additional melodies with other instruments, joining and invigorating a harmony composed by a plurality, yet united as One remedy…

The “True Earthling” and Nature 

One must consider, that presence and company of other human beings with an individual, within a place which is not a natural environment, represents on the contrary of the major and common belief, the weakest and most insignificant factor in determining an individual’s state as being “sociable” and “not alone”, therefore opposed to what a True Earthling on the other hand appears to be in the eyes of the majority of contemporary human beings, namely: “anti-social” and “alone/lonely”, as well as other disparaging names.

In fact, the common belief’s ideal of “sociable human” represents the most unilateral, mediocre and poorest feature of humanity. It demonstrates the degenerative human obsession towards its own and only species, hence the subsequent fear, disconnection, ignorance and disrespect towards all other species belonging to the natural realm. Such countless other species only become needed and are encountered for exploitative, selfish and destructive reasons, hence the Earth’s current disastrous condition.

Therefore, one must consider and understand the erroneous inference that constitutes the commonly believed equation that matches a human being whom is primarily in harmonious contact with Nature’s vast realm, rather than with other human beings, as being “anti-social” and “alone”.

In truth, the human being whom seeks for Nature’s reach, and lives content within its realm, in all of its shades and tones, along with all its creatures, is actually the highest form of a truly “sociable” and “not alone” being, a True Earthling, by the correct principles of Eywa, Mother Earth and her realm: the wild.

Such Earthlings are open and naturally favorable towards all other species, each and every living plant and animal that inhabits the deep waters, salty or still, flowing or idle; or dwells the fertile or dry lands, sandy dunes, green hills up to glacial rocky mountains, as well as all those whom hover across dense misty woods up to those who glide across the high sky…

The True Earthling who’s in harmony with Nature lives instinctively abiding to the rules of the Circle of life. It senses genuine benevolence towards all other creatures whom harmlessly share the same sunlight and darkness, water and air provided by Mother Nature, and just as genuinely, acts with carnal fierceness and  feral rivalry towards potential enemies, when preserving its own entity’s survival. Such twofold behavior is the foundation that perpetuates the Circle of life, hence including two essential phases that belong to the core of every living being, each of which symbolically represents a circle: perpetuation of life endures until the circle of one comes to an end with its death, yet providing another circle’s subsistence by doing so. Thus, the sovereign and supreme circle above all Earthlings never ends, as one inanimate body becomes part of the earth, the sea, the air, or another Earthling’s body, perpetuating the harmony through its own sacrifice.

Within the Circle of life, both sorrow and joy are meant to be, as both give meaning to one another. Therefore death and birth are fundamentally ambivalent, positive and negative, equally purposeful for the harmony.

This is the wild, and these are the rules. The illusory ambiguity of combining two terms such as “wild”, and “rules”, actually proves its total and logical coherence, as the wild only withstands rooted in its rules.

Wrongfully, these rules are commonly violated and disregarded by the majority of contemporary human beings. Contaminated and corrupt minds of a single species that immorally took too much control over all other species of the realm, breaking the rules of the wild, neglecting and overworking the environment, altering the natural balance of life.

It is cloudlessly limpid now that the ones whom do follow the rules of the wild, are the True Earthlings, and they are not anti-social, nor alone, but rather they are One with the environment. Therefore I believe that the true meaning of what “alone” has wrongfully meant and still does for the majority, stands in a definition which is similar to the eye’s perception, but entirely diverse in the core perceived by the mind: Not “Alone” but rather “All One”. Thus, True Earthlings are considered to be ‘alone’ by the masses, while truthfully they are “all one” with the whole environment: One with their own body and spirit and One with the supreme unanimous spirit made of multiple bodies, whom is Eywa, containing the connection to the entirety of all other living beings of the natural realm.

The True Earthling in Love

Although an Earthling may attain oneness with Eywa and with one’s self, still… Remains a singular exception to the Unity, a void in the spirit of an Earthling which fails to complete the ultimate evolution, a hollow void lusting for completion... 

Such void consists in every Earthling’s deepest desire and wish to complete the most divine Unity with another Earthling, with whom a reciprocal rendering may be acquired.

The Earthling’s spirit resembles an ardent nebulous vapor, filling the body in different proportions, yet it is never fully complete until the missing breath that completes the spirit’s vapor is discovered and encountered.

Such a void embodies the most transcendent and celestial longing, next to the sensual and fleshly craving, that arises and develops inside, as the ravishing quest for another Earthling whom provides final completion to both the spirit and the carnal body, within which the spirit breathes and dwells.

In Love, two Earthlings live on within the harmony as individuals, among Eywa’s Unity, and become One. But not simply as two separate beings in conjunction, but rather “One” as a holistic entirety where both spirits are bound eternally and animate one another.

As two sea waves flowing in opposite directions meliorate their ultimate vigor as a blend of two into an effervescent One.

As an unceasing lone wind inspires a tenuous lone ember to grow into a mighty fire and both endure to enliven each other as a luminous One.

As a fallen tree seed grows in its motherly soil, broadening its roots until they are deeply embodied with Mother Earth, as a prosperous One.

The supreme Unity is accomplished thanks to Love. The chosen mate doesn’t exist as an added entity, but rather as a complementary essence to both Earthlings, whose spirits and bodies are mutually finalized.

Healing Sound purifies a spirit that’s Bound

Wild Nature evokes liberty through Rapture

A Mate through Love is a gift from Above