I often ruminate, and sometimes it is difficult to break through the rumination. One of the techniques that helps me to handle this is thinking about something fascinating and out of the ordinary. I'm not a philosopher or scientist, and I'm not trying to compare my thinking process with theirs, but sometimes I think about how it can happen that out of nothing was born matter, something, sentient matter. Actually, like I said before, I'm, of course, not the first person who posed this question. Many scientists and philosophers have been pondering this question, and this problem even has a name; it's called the hard problem of consciousness. Today I started reading a book about consciousness and was surprised by the fact of how the world is interconnected. Every organism shows characteristics that are not so foreign to other organisms. For example, plants also communicate with each other through mycorrhizal networks. Such relationships between two species of trees were actually documented. There were fir and birch that sent messages to each other through carbon. Whenever the one or the other needed carbon, they sent it. Plants also were observed to care about their seedlings. They stop their root competition in order to create a place for their seedlings, or whenever the seedlings need more resilience against environmental stress, the trees send to their kin the needed chemicals. So, this world is so interesting and amazing, and if you realize it completely, maybe there will be no more place in your head for negative thoughts.