If we took away science…
and stripped ourselves of technology,
would we be able to reconnect?

If we took away science,
would we understand better—
see what is,
not just what we want to see?

The animals follow their intuition.
How do the chickens know to rest on a perch,
even when they were born through incubation?

Science didn’t tell them.
They were born knowing.
As are we.

But we forget—far too often—
what it truly means to live.

I confess:
I see the computer more than I need to.
And I notice,
when I sit in front of it,
I don’t breathe the same
as when I’m away from it.

And in that moment,
I lose what it means
to be alive.

Rest well.
~ Maktub