[First Last Name]
[Date Month Year]
The Geo in the Essence of Existence and Its Connectedness
INTRODUCTION
GEO AS THE EARTH
Geo, as the physical world that astronomy refers to as the planet ‘Earth’, comprises all that exists on the surface of the Earth: the soil and the landforms; the streams and the water forms. It can be seen in the colorful varieties of the soil: from the lighter hues of brown to its darkest hue. It is also seen in the verdant black soils and the iron rich reddish or maroon ones. Moreover, it can be appreciated in the great diversity of the shapes and sizes of landforms, from the small surface protrusions of some icebergs on the cold seas in the Arctic and the Antarctica to the highest summit of the great Mount Everest or in the vast expanse of the continental Asia or even the far larger physical connectedness of Europe, Asia, and Africa (EURASIAFRICA), the Americas, Antarctica, the Arctic, and the smallest ‘continent’ of mainland Australia.
The connectedness of the oceans, however, separated by the different names human beings had given to them, far dwarfed the size and the diversity of the land masses and landforms on Earth. The aquatic shapes of the world’s body of water simply mesmerize the human imagination, which cartographic maps cannot even capture with adequate faithfulness, for its sheer uniqueness and enviably almost unlimited differences.
GEO AS A CONNECTEDNESS
An undeniable characteristic of the physical surfaces is connectedness. Landforms connect with each other, if not in the surface, but surely underwater. Oceans as well connect themselves in a strange, continuous state of being that even nomenclature cannot fully justify, or may even insult in the name of helping human beings orient themselves in their surface journeys. The geo on which human beings live is a connectedness in, and by, itself.
Inevitably, human beings as well are offshoots of such natural connectedness of the geo. From the polar regions of the Earth where people of white skins adapted to survive and the tropical regions of the dark-skinned human beings, the connectedness flows through land bridges, seacrafts, and aircrafts, connecting people of diverse cultures and races. In fact, most countries in the world from those less developed to the most reflects the connected diversity of the geo among human beings. The United States, for instance, can be as racially diverse as the United Arab Emirates, France, or Italy, or even Hong Kong and the Philippines.
CONCLUSION
The geo is both the earth and its connectedness all at the same time. It is a reminder to human beings and all living things on its surface that they are, by nature and in nature, exist in the essentials of existence and existential connectedness. In a sense, geo ensures that human beings will not be isolated in this planet and that they were meant to be mutually connected.
