So missed me…J my comeback article.
Actually I had sort of lost my motivation to write and nobody came in to ‘push my buttons’. Realised that sometimes for the truth to be discussed, need to the buttons oneself. Well, as usual writing something out of the blue.
Something I saw on CNN a couple days ago took the earth off under my feet. It’s a known fact and nothing new but we all fail to see it. Why??? What did I see and what did u guys miss? Hmmmm…
I think it was in Zimbabwe (not very sure), a small boy of maybe 12 years whose ribs you could count. He was digging a whole in the ground, deep enough to be ones grave. Why was he digging it, well to find food. Well he had no intentions of finding fresh red carrots but in the end found a small mouse. The expression of content filled his face and he fisted the white mouse and ran with joy to show his mum what he had found for dinner. That ‘mouse soup’ you can call it was supposed to feed 4 people in total. The entire family feasted with joy that night. Just coz they had some form of food.
I couldn’t just watch this; I had to turn my head off. The truth is all around us but we all try to look away from it. Why, bother in somebody else’s mess. Nothing to do with me, as long as I have my ‘Cream icing’ served on my cake for dessert. Is it because we don’t really give a damn or because we are helpless in doing anything about it? Only if I could take my ‘Pasta’ that night to this family somewhere in Africa. I see it everyday all over what’s happening but still, some part of the food has to go to the garbage. Its hard to blame myself all alone but it just pains my heart when I see something go into the garbage just coz it is out of its expiration date or we were not in the mood for ‘Broccoli’’ that day. How many of us actually sit at our eating table and have something to complain about it? It’s too tangy; there is no salt in my food, how about some more spice. There is nothing wrong in wanting what we want, but don’t we push it sometimes?
The problem is we all think, that’s not going to happen to us. We are just so ignorant to the fact, that this is a evolving world and one or the other day; our actions are going to affect the future. I did my internship with a cosmetic company and an MNC. Before starting no offense to the company, did indeed have the time of my life working there. These guys have everything to make the best lipstick or mascaras in the world. Well when working in the laboratory we used thin tissues to clean the excess from the beakers or anywhere. The idea is everyday probably half of a tree worth of paper went into the garbage. Print sheets, tissues, writing pads, packaging etc etc. I am usually conscious about the environment, the excess waste around us and stuff. But when I was there, I actually didn’t give a damn. Why, coz nobody else did as well. Everything was available and also in excess. I was under the notion (maybe still am) that can never happen to me. We wont run out of oxygen one day, acid rain wouldn’t burn down everything around us. Nobody knew Tsunami or Hurricane Katrina would happen but it happened. Maybe it’s the signal from nature itself asking us to slow down. But we are nowhere close to it are we? All we do is read about the UNO rules and say ‘what good it can bring?’ As common Homo sapiens, we think its nothing under our control, lets leave it to Mr. Bush (bad idea) or Mandela or someone. As for me, cosy up on my couch and catch up with my work, TV shows or whatever. Well the next time a question like this comes to my mind I say to myself ‘Lady! Lets start with not throwing any of my dinner today into the garbage, switch the TV completely off not leave it on stand by, reuse one-side printed papers, think of saving up some of your shopping money and give to an Orphanage anywhere, also try some weekends doing some self-less work for the kids instead of hitting the dance floor’’. I did say this to myself and actually works, maybe a small step but we all step in together, think ‘what a revolution’ it can bring.
I know it, you know, we all know it…. it’s all out there…we don’t want to see it.
Okay lets try it step by step,
Step 1 - Open our eyes.
‘We are ‘change’ itself, its all in us, lets change in for a better tomorrow.
