The Breathing Thing, Part Two

When we use the word “breath” to refer to one cycle in a narrative of cycles called breathing, then it does refer to a thing; that is, a meeting that is a narrative with many participants.

Now “breath” no longer refers to an abstract mental concept. It is one narrative cycle in the larger narrative of a meeting with many participants, a meeting called breathing. It refers to a concrete thing; a meeting with concrete, actively breathing participants. 

You are participating in the meeting of breathing right now. You joined the breathing meeting with your first breath and have been participating in it ever since. You will participate in the meeting until your last expiration.

Everyone that is now breathing is an active participant in the thing, the on-going meeting, called breathing. The meeting has been going on since breathing began. It will go on as long as breathing continues. While we’re breathing, we’re participating in the meeting with everyone else that is breathing. It’s an inter-species meeting.

This cycle of the cosmic, inter-species breathing meeting will end with the last expiration of the last one breathing.

What we do while we breathe together matters. How we treat everyone else we’re breathing with matters.

How we treat air especially matters. It matters to everyone breathing in this cosmic breathing meeting that is happening now. It will matter as well to those who inhale the first breath that begins the next meeting of the cosmic cycle of breathing.