Without fig wasps, there are no figs. Fig wasps enter into the flowers on a fig tree to lay their eggs; and in doing so, they pollinate the flowers. Monkeys, birds, fruit bats and the like then eat the the figs like candy. Figs are a laxative so these animals shit all over the ground, which supplies the soil with dense nutrients as well as seeds to grow more fig trees. This is called interconnectedness. The Naturalist John Muir wrote that, "When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe." Being that we are a part of nature, we aren't exempt from the laws of interconnectedness. When we are considering removing or adding something in our lives and our work, we must also consider the impact of that something on the broader ecosystem. Not just our physical ecosystem but our mental and emotional ecosystem as well.