I don’t know why people are afraid of earthquakes when they are the ones who cause it. We all are responsible for our own actions and the consequences of these will always be borne by us. History is the witness. So what were you thinking mankind when you exploited Mother Earth over the centuries?
I always feel that it is not the (administrative/political) leader of the country who brings changes in a country. It is the citizens and people themselves. We are the leaders of our own life and actions and one action of ours WILL ACTUALLY change our country, not some scheme or funds. A government can only design a message and provide means, but that ACTIONS have to be done by us. It’s surprising why people don’t have that much vision that, when we have collectively worked (and each one has taken up a role), we have made breakthroughs in science and art. It’s a funny theory; it’s about the power of ONE in a COLLECTIVE. Each one being a center of action, and when all (collective) take action, there will be only goodness.
It is only when YOU stop throwing litter and making our planet a filthy landfill. When YOU learn to recycle and reuse; and the easiest is ‘don’t use, don’t buy’ what you can’t dispose off without hurting Nature and People. I seriously can’t understand this obsession with ‘more’…most people are quite dumb that they don’t realize that ‘LESS IS MORE’. The less you use, the more there is for your own children and the global family. Dad always tells us that if you wanna buy one thing, then donate/discard one thing in place of it. I mean what are you going to do accumulating all these items? I have never received a satisfactory answer to that question.
We were born naked and we will die (of course) naked or clothed with one item. We will take nothing with us when we die, so accumulating and MAINTAINING items is not an act of intelligence or comfort. Actually I am not sure how many people have realized that buying more things actually costs more in terms of the time and money put to maintain them. I have to admit, that one of my frustrations (out of the many) is that I spend SO MUCH TIME maintaining items. Sometimes, I just want to throw every item I have away (except a few!). Let’s see, if I had bought 20 less clothes in 4 months, I would wash 20 less clothes. Assuming that each cloth takes 5 minutes to wash and dry, I would be left with 100 minutes of free time. If I had 4 less pieces of furniture, I would save 20 minutes per furniture to dust in a month, hence I will earn 80 minutes of free time. 180 minutes. Wow, just imagine how many friends and family members I could call and meet in that time. How much quality I would add to my life, but putting people above objects. And for the highly intelligent math students, you could go on to calculate the electricity saved and so on. So somewhere in the future, I would cause less destruction to the Planet and less disasters. Wow, I would save lives by buying and keeping less. Hence, my less would be someone’s more. Strangely, human intellect, education and philosophy can’t fathom such SIMPLE things. Actually you don’t need intelligence and education to understand this, you only need a heart and common sense.
You know when earthquakes will stop killing our own families? When we begin to bleed with every tree that is cut, when our heart breaks with every drop of water that is wasted, every litter that is not recycled, every minute that electricity is wasted in an empty room; and when it deeply pains to waste food. You have to feel it from your heart (actually that’s the ‘theory of everything’). It’s not just boyfriends who should make our heart ache, it’s also every act of OURSELF which is selfish. It’s only when we begin to realize that yes our mother gave birth to us, but the Planet/Nature preserved us. I don’t really blame the education system (and who is really going to change it), but I blame parents for not developing SUCH A BASIC VALUE SYSTEM in their children. It’s so easy, just have GRATITUDE towards Nature. What will educational degrees give you? What will a big position at your work place give you? What will money give you if you don’t even know how to take a quicker shower? What did you think? That you will buy natural water from Nature with that hard earned cash? I am sorry, but what kind of company can rely on employees (to generate profit) who can’t even take a shorter shower and turn off the lights when no one needs them? Such employers must be stupid in hiring insensitive people. If you can’t do a lifesaving act for your mother (Nature), then what really will you do for your company and with so much education?
I wish parents teach their kids that it is not ‘SOMEONE out there’ who will make the world a better place, BUT IT IS YOU. Only YOU can change; and ONLY YOU will have to change. No one else can change the world EXCEPT YOU. It’s quite a responsibility huh, we are always running after comforts for our family and our self and here we are landed up with the responsibility to take care of the Earth and teach our children some good values! And for whomever it is hard, then I am not really sorry, but you deserve to perish with the fury of Mother Nature. It’s not an earthquake, it’s the cry of our Mother who has nurtured us and to whom we are a burden with our selfish acts. I have no proof, but I can guarantee that if EVERY PERSON on this planet takes responsibility of their actions and make conscious decisions to be sensitive to our Mother and our People, there will be less earthquakes/less destruction.
What deeply pains is that the consequences of the actions of a few (read: elite) are being borne by a larger group and sadly, this will continue, TILL EACH ONE OF US DOESN’T FEEL A SENSE OF GRATITUDE AND RESPONSIBILITY towards Nature and our People.
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