Free will(inside you) + Protection of the environment - outside you - (genuine protection - codependence) = Inner Growth?

You might choose to have what gives you nourishment. Helps you blossom but too much of it, kills you, I hear ya. But without it you die = neverending circles

The trashpicker is alone while picking up the trash. The carnival is empty but the absence of sound wouldn't be the same without the sounds of those that left . . .

. . . and the promising silence of the newcomers is the invisible kiss of the wind, the invisible kiss on the hand while tying the last knot of the trashbag. "It is not the Hercules knot" the trashpicker sighs while falling asleep. . .