The Struggle of Dust

My eye stood fixated upon a light background. As my pupils adjusted to the variance of light, I could see dust hairs floating in the open expanse of air. They floated round seeking a place to establish its residence.

This is the struggle of dust. It wanders the air longing for significance. But the only way for it to be significant is if it gathers on a foundation that holds.

Considering this, there is truth in the statement where God says in Genesis 3:19, "For dust you are and to dust you will return." How long has the struggle of humanity been characterized by a longing for significance? We want to see ourselves as something more than dust, but oddly, our significance comes in the stunning revelation that dust is all we are. 

But to acknowledge ourselves as dust is to acknowledge something greater than ourselves. For if all dust wants is to perch its weary, wandering head on a place where it can truly rest, than that place, that foundation, must be significantly greater than ourselves.

I, just one spec of dust, used to be a Film major. And while I was a Film major, I found that the way a shot in a movie is set up plays a role into how we are to interpret the scene. For instance, we are to interpret a shot of a person looking into a mirror as a person examining him or herself. Two people separated by some barrier in the shot is suppose to signify the struggle of their separation. But then I switched to a Philosophy and Religion major and I found the same concept echoed in my studies. What if our present reality is set up in such a way that it plays a role into how we are to interpret life?

But to consider this would mean that we have to acknowledge that life has meaning. This is where the struggle of dust is fed into by: the dust longs for significance because of a prevailing belief that life has no meaning so they have to establish meaning for themselves. Somewhere along the line, life has become devalued. 

In Part II I will talk about how life has become devalued.