Throughout life I’ve noticed too many, much to many times, how the human feeling nature functions more naturally, aside all what we have learned of wrong lessons. It keeps peeking through many things we do.

We are at our own basis of our very own nature, originally not driven by success, money and material. And nor do we even really like praise, but I’ll get back to that.

At the base of our nature, we are driven by human connection. We we light up, we have energy out of nowhere and we wake up to life, to excitement, to joy, to adventure, to pleasure and leasure from real proper human connection.

But at the same time humanity has become more and more disconnected all the while, as we generally as a whole, have been getting more and more into technology and industry progress, through which we also have become more money and work oriented than humane oriented.

As nature keeps on and on, even if it has to take longer to get its thing done, it will. Even if a tiny flower has to make its way through concrete or asphalt, it will. So as nature has it to correct itself, or better said to adjust its path/process/progress accordingly,  humanity has by that also developed growing masses of people who are into spiritual aspects of existence, which is much like an attempt to counterbalance. But really it’s seeking its way to get back into full harmony, have us reconnecting firstly to ourselves, and then from there connecting with all the rest, which is naturally including nature as we are of course part of it, and each other, as we are all part of the same.

Praise is something that surprises and puzzles us the very first time we get it. It plainly just feels really weird to have someone freaking out like that so to say, when we were just doing something joyful or exiting, following our own natural feeling in doing something that feels right, good, or both, or perhaps more perfectly said, we’re doing something effortless with calm inner joy.
And then suddenly appears all these adults with their superficial ways, applauding and throwing all this awe at us. And we stand there feeling like, oh it’s OK, you don’t have to….?, why are you doing that?, what is that? But we are too young in vulcabulary communications to express what we feel, and so it goes unnoticed, and instead we just gradually, though almost immediately, learn this from them, without getting to ever really question and contemplate it all, to make our own decisions about it, where we might actually decide to exclude it from our self, from our reality so to say, but which sounds like an impossible mysterious idea from what we have gotten used to, and seems rather unimaginable, how we could exclude something like that from our own personal existence. But some of us know that everything is possible, even though we can’t always see how so.
Praise seems really harmless, it even seems like a good thing of love and support, but it does provoke the ego to grow out of its place (what I call “swell up and overgrow” its healthy size).
Truth is, that in the disconnecting that has been going on for too long, now everyone stands alone, and also our old parents and grandparents end up very alone. It has created a rather cold wild world, and so praise gets to do some bit of counterbalancing here.
How is this? Is this case also influenced by nature!? Well yes, of course it is, when it’s happening right here, within our nature, in our only home ~this earth, and with us who are of nature ourselves. So yes, of course this too is influenced by nature’s ways.

When the Internet first came into my life, I felt that its the physical substitute for our otherwise nonphysical and natural version of such connectedness, that we just driven by our very nature, happen to imitate it, because connectedness is  our nature, so it’s something that we need, and so it’s just nature’s ways of counterbalancing that in whatever ways possible, even if it’s not even half as profoundly effective as the original natural version.

For example,
just like the flower finds its way to alternatively grow through the asphalt, which just takes it much much longer to achieve than the original way of growth otherwise would, and in the same similar way, we make our way to connecting alternatively through the Internet, which just takes much much longer to achieve anything close to what the original connecting otherwise does. Which I doubt it can, but it does help.

Things that are not natural, also tend to go out of control, or rather get out of proportions; and here praise delivers a great example of that, with fans of whatever and whoever, screaming, crying and even fainting.

For as long as I can remember knowing of this, I’ve always felt and still feel it being an example of either plain stupidity, or simply humans providing a natural example of how out of ballance we are, and how far away we’ve come from harmony, or better said how chaoticly unhealthy a great part of humanity seems to be.

Everyone wants and needs to feel special somehow.

Everyone wants to love and be loved. But we have learned some …let’s just call it a disney version love, and we’ve learned some religious stuff of love.

And besides that love, most people know the natural love you feel for the kids you raise in this world.

But none of the two, not even together, make up to anything to remind us what love really is. It is a state of being, a way of feeling, a way of thinking of others before you.
Sometimes we have to think of ourselves first so we can easily be that, but very often we can get caught in it with another anyway and it tends to bring a sense of love all by itself anyway, and while dealing with your friends problems fully, your own become manageable or even start crumbling away.

But we all know that when we are with the ones we love the most, we are stronger and feel much better. So treasure them while you have them.
…for without them, even just being in your back land now, you will be what starts crumbling. Let them feel treasured. Especially if you want them around.