of coming together and falling apart~

Spending two straight days of my afternoon reading about the origin of the cosmos made me discover an interesting common phenomena of things falling apart - coming together - falling apart then coming together again. It describes a cyclical process whereby it would have no end, and where one can't trace the beginning.

First is the Earth. I remembered my Geology class professor told that the Earth has undergone, undergoing and would undergo many years of land coming together and breaking down again. These are caused by volcanic eruptions at the sea floor, in the middle of plates going against each other and of plates moving away from each other. Observe how the 7 continents are formed from years of these phenomena here:

..and time will come when those continents would again form one huge mass of land but not named as "Pangea" and then fall apart again and form another and so on.

Second is Water. Water also has the cyclical tendency of coming together by virtue of  draining off to rivers, seas and oceans. With the help of heat, water fly to heaven through becoming a vapor and sticks with other water elements until they clutter into clouds and get heavy. They fall apart through rain and then come together again through the same process.

Third is human cells. By conception, cells come together and form tissues into organs into systems into a human. And through the life of the human, they work together in sustaining its life by breaking down food, circulating blood and oxygen, fighting against foreign attackers of the body such as virus, bacteria, etc.. It breaks up at death of the human and die also. Then comes decomposers which take care of  their remnants and who helps them come together with other nutrients and be used as fertilizers bringing up new life in a different form.

Fourth is society. As Karl Marx said, "the history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles". The theory of coming together and falling apart comes in a different level in society where coming together means peace and consensus while falling apart is war and conflict. Society could not have developed and sustained its life until now if there were no conflicting forces and later on agree on a consensus - if this is absent, then development of knowledge through criticism, debate then agreement could not have taken place.

Of coming together and falling apart, I fear the future of people organizations built. The work of social workers is to bring people together to help each other and resolve issues on their own. But will it also come a time when the empowered people's organization face the difficulties of conflict and falling apart? Then maybe, if it so it happens, I wish there would also be a natural or self-induced process of them coming together again. ~.~