Day #27: Our world (100 days gratitude challenge)
Day #27: Our world
100 days of gratitude
This morning at 5 am when I took Alfie for a walk I noticed the road was filled with the remnants of yesterday's festivities. Paper, cardboard, plastic covers. gunpowder, rocket launchers, bottles, buckets, mugs, and tons of muck. I feel sorry for the cleaning staff who have to labour to clear this. Rains may help if it comes pouring now.
We humans have a unique relationship with our planet. We believe that whatever we do our planet will correct itself and come back to how we found it. We don't know or care who is cleaning up behind us. Fortunately for us, our planet has taken care of itself so far. It has taken all the abuse we threw at it and corrected itself. I wonder how long this party can continue before it gives up.
Do you notice how our planet is learning to adapt herself to our ways? She is over 4.5 billion years old. She managed to see her way through dinosaurs for à few million years. Primitive mankind is about 200,000 yrs old. Modem man is 6000 yrs old. Industrial mankind is just 200 odd yrs old. Plastic is just about 6 decades old. But we have managed to produce 8.3 billion tons of it. And the way we consume and waste it, it is turning into a ticking time bomb.
Yet our earth is kind enough to grow green and throw up beautiful plants, flowers, and creatures to awe and inspire us.
Today just a few hundred meters my housing complex and a few meters from this eyesore of yesterday's deprivations, the landscape is green and moist with a light mist and fog hanging over it and a clean aroma exuding from it that soothes my body and soul.
The earth is already correcting our mistakes. She's like an indulgent parent cleaning up after her kids. Patiently waiting for when the child will grow up and learn to be responsible.
I'm grateful for Ma Earth. She's wonderful.
100 days of gratitude
This morning at 5 am when I took Alfie for a walk I noticed the road was filled with the remnants of yesterday's festivities. Paper, cardboard, plastic covers. gunpowder, rocket launchers, bottles, buckets, mugs, and tons of muck. I feel sorry for the cleaning staff who have to labour to clear this. Rains may help if it comes pouring now.
We humans have a unique relationship with our planet. We believe that whatever we do our planet will correct itself and come back to how we found it. We don't know or care who is cleaning up behind us. Fortunately for us, our planet has taken care of itself so far. It has taken all the abuse we threw at it and corrected itself. I wonder how long this party can continue before it gives up.
Do you notice how our planet is learning to adapt herself to our ways? She is over 4.5 billion years old. She managed to see her way through dinosaurs for à few million years. Primitive mankind is about 200,000 yrs old. Modem man is 6000 yrs old. Industrial mankind is just 200 odd yrs old. Plastic is just about 6 decades old. But we have managed to produce 8.3 billion tons of it. And the way we consume and waste it, it is turning into a ticking time bomb.
Yet our earth is kind enough to grow green and throw up beautiful plants, flowers, and creatures to awe and inspire us.
Today just a few hundred meters my housing complex and a few meters from this eyesore of yesterday's deprivations, the landscape is green and moist with a light mist and fog hanging over it and a clean aroma exuding from it that soothes my body and soul.
The earth is already correcting our mistakes. She's like an indulgent parent cleaning up after her kids. Patiently waiting for when the child will grow up and learn to be responsible.
I'm grateful for Ma Earth. She's wonderful.
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