I suppose nobody remember the old entires I did whereby I likened 'Life' to a situation or totally irrelevant (unless we speak of it being subsetted by) system. No matter anyway, this time, I'm tilting the style of those Life 'analogies' unto an aspect that life requires/expects/suggests one to do. Dependence, i.e. a reliance. I allow no restricitions of this word, and it can mean a goal, an aim, a necessity, a hunger, a thirst, a desire, an objective, an obessive need etc. Something that humans cling onto for the sake of survival. Then again, 'cling' and 'survival' may be terms much too harsh for a school of thought to agree with. Lets include those who hold onto it for the need of 'flow' then. Whatever that 'flow' points to should be understandable to those who dwell into the mystics anyway. Whatever your desired 'words' with regard to dependence may be, let us first agree that humans need to depend on something.

The above associated words to 'reliance' should give you the key ideas, and several obvious personalities of the clingers come to mind. Those with drive and passion, who seek to gain wealth, status, honour and achievement. Those filled with confusion, wanting someone or something to appease their inner conflict. Those that just want to complete this process by rushing to the end, seeing the whole point of 'life' as 'objective', justifying their purposes with the end's result. Perhaps not the direct dependence, whereby its really outwardly obvious that its a crutch. But, a dependence no doubt, as goals, objectives, wants are all but intangible crutches that give one a purpose, a direction. And thus they depend on all these. To not depend on anything is to simply not exist. Even if one has nothing to look forward to, the act of dependence can be reduced to survival of the body. When extended to the terms of the mind, when matters like destinity are concerned, the dependence one takes transforms into a more abstract dependence - one that excretes meaning or provides satisfaction. One that signals a desired emotion or a instills a joy.

Rooted to the ground
This dependence can variate in degree of strength, just consider the tree and how long the roots grow. Being rooted to something indicates a more stronger dependence. The ground is simply there by one to stand and grow, it is necessary, but not something that aids you. The ground does help as it is from the ground that the tree derives its fertilisers and summons the strength to grow, yet it is but up to the tree to see how long it wants to survive, how strong it wants to grow. When the winds and storms threaten the toppling, it would depend on how deep the roots have grown into the ground to see whether or not it will collaspe. The ground is the source of nutrients, the needed platform to grow. And one depends by rooting oneself into it.

Lean against the wall
The depencence here seems much more lazier, much more reliant. It assumes the individual to be totally incapable of standing on its own and thus needs a support. Note that the fact that one is standing already but just leaning, the dependence can be seen as a parsitie-like dependence. The wall is just used for comfort purposes, and not because leaning really is needed. Also note that the wall itself can be demolished, bringing the leaner down with it. It is not totally assured that this dependence will give one the constant ability of standing. Leaning all the time is tiring anyway, the will of one might just give up and decide to sit. On the ground.

Cling onto the rope
Of course, the scene has to first be a deep dark pit at the bottom. A lot of trust invovled here, as the rope can be cutted anytime (by the holder, say supernatural or real. the analogy here doesn't really care whether those forces exist anyway) It also depends on one's ability, (i.e. weight) and on how you look at it (as in like, don't eat so many hamburgers on the rope) it can be or can not be up to you. The deep sincerity in the strength of the rope motivates the clinger to continue clinging, perhaps even getting him to climb up this thread. He doesn't want to let go anyway. He doesn't want to fall to the ground.

Running on the generator
The picture here gets a bit far-fetched from the everyday understandable objects, but for the sake of talking about this dependence, lets imagine a machine that a guy has to run on to generate electricity for the machine to function. He continues this process and enjoys himself as the digits rolls on in the machine. Lets just say, for the fun of it, that the machine has a 'level' system and gives chants of encouragement to him when he reached a certain number. Well, actualy his ego could do that already. The guy runs on and on and on.... and he'll probaly get tired, but he depends on those digits and doesn't want to stop because he wants them to grow. He'll go faster and faster, and maybe slow down once in a while. But then he goes faster again. He doesn't want to stop, he doesn't want to touch the ground.

Listening to the music
Maybe its not literal music, maybe its something that seems like music. Its sweet, its satisfying, it should be the one. Live with it, live by it. That is how the dependence of some is structured, and although it may not mean anything or doesn't actually make sense on a more logical level, lets go forth and ignore. Hear the music, embrace its beauty, and one shall understand. This has totally no relation to the ground whatsover, (if you noticed my pattern) so to keep with the pattern anyway... ahem. Ground.

And indeed, ground. To depend on something, it must be hard, it must be solid. It must make sure that it will not give way, it must give good reason that it can be trusted. Even for those who do not wish to deal with anything, but just follow the system so that he won't collaspe. For those that believe in a theory so strongly even with all the loopholes in it that he does not want to let go of his created concepts. For those who exist for the sake of achieving more so as to sustain his existence and achieve even greater, till he ends. For those who want to follow a way that allows you a 'new' conciousness.

For all those, and more...
Realise that whilst you're doing everything, the ground is always there, supporting whatsoever your doing.


"Therefore everyone who hears these words of mine and puts them into practice is like a wise man who built his house on the rock. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house; yet it did not fall, because it had its foundation on the rock. But everyone who hears these words of mine and does not put them into practice is like a foolish man who built his house on sand. The rain came down, the streams rose, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell with a great crash." -- Matthew 7:24-27 (NIV)

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