What I Think Of Now

The scene begins with emotion: excitement, anticipation, and a pouring forth of love in the uniting of friends, family, and lovers. We’re at a wedding set in Paris, within the historic Eiffel Tower; and our protagonists have been through a horrible and exhilarating journey to arrive at this place and time. Finally, everyone is together. Those who have only met through the twist of emotions in their loved ones are now shaking hands, making eye contact, hugging.

Admittedly, I always cry during this scene: the Amanita and Nomi wedding in the last episode of Sense8 (on Netflix). Before this, the viewer is taken through two seasons of this harrowing journey of eight people from across the world, living varying lifestyles and haunted by different backgrounds who are united by emotion and the deepest secrets of their hearts. All eight paths have led to this one great moment of unification—not just with the initial eight, but with all those they hold closest to their hearts.

This scene brings home the idea of the whole show, the idea that’s planted in the first few episodes: I am also a We. It’s the idea that humans aren’t meant to function as a series of individuals but, instead, as our own type of ecosystem, following the functions of nature from cells to the microbiome of a garden to a full forest all the way to the planet, as a whole. We’re meant to work together, each with our own interests and abilities to bring to the table, to work and thrive as a community: from household to neighborhood to city/town to country to world.

During Nomi and Amanita’s wedding, Riley’s father—a concert pianist—plays while they walk down the aisle; and the strange thing is, they’ve only just met from Amanita and Riley’s father’s perspective. But because of that heart-based connection between Nomi and Riley, I’m sure his playing felt like another warm, sunny morning coloring within the sweet vibrations of a loving father’s practice.

And the thing is: we don’t need to be homosensorium in order to feel a connection like this. It’s even mentioned in the show that homosapiens inherited this inane empathic ability from homosensoriums. While I haven’t done any research regarding the truth behind this, the theory is pretty solid. And the message is desperately important: none of us should be ignoring issues that don’t directly affect us currently. I say currently because, eventually, each of society’s issues are going to blow back into everyone’s lives, not just the lives of those they’re affecting now.

But this is just the base idea of a bigger, more beautiful idea: moving from a place of fear, which makes us all into selfish and self-serving gremlins, to a place of love—and letting that love expand outward until it covers the whole world. At this point in time, in particular, we’ve got to realize that this life isn’t just about the me. How petty life is when each universe is so small. Instead, we need to start viewing our communities, our world as a we and acting in accordance.

I believe we’re right on the cusp of a global evolution into something bigger than capitalism and mass suppression. Why not bloom like the flowers around us in this beautiful spring weather, rather than continue the bad habits that these corrupt systems have taught us? Let’s have more than faith in our humanity and take action on it, instead. It’s time we look at nature, reflect it, and begin exuding compassion and collaboration because, otherwise, we may be lost.

Good luck out there.