Ordering *because* chaos…

Ordering *because* chaos, not despite it.

I love the word 'syntropy' -- I hear so much about the tendency toward entropy, and I don't disagree, but I hear very little about the tendency toward syntropy.  This is a both/and, not an either/or. So what is syntropy? 

From Wiktionary: 

"In science -- A tendency towards complexity, structure, order, organization of ever more advantageous and orderly patterns.

In psychology -- A wholesome association with others."

If things didn't break down, would we have the constituent parts from which the next thing(s) could be constructed?  

Even in that which appears to persist, is there an internal, perhaps "invisible" (to some) disordering that occurs which allows for a renewal, a reconceiving, restructuring? 

Entropy isn't an end, it's part of a cycle.

I posit we *need* death, disorder, decay, crumbling, shedding in order (haha, see what I did there...) to illuminate to us what's important, to orient us, to come into appreciation more deeply, to bring us more acutely into relationship.  And relationship is ordering, it's syntropic, even if it doesn't "last."

The lyrics of one of my favorite songs, "If We Were Vampires" by Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit speak to this:

If we were vampires and death was a joke
We'd go out on the sidewalk and smoke
Laugh at all the lovers and their plans
I wouldn't feel the need to hold your hand
Maybe time running out is a gift

So why write about this? Because “everything’s falling apart” is all over the place, and I’d invite you to consider and notice where things are coming together.

There’s that saying, “Energy flows where attention goes,” – so where are you putting your attention? To the falling apart?  Or the coming together?  And what’s your role in it?