With Mr.AZ and the rest of the world being all consumed in the green gratitude thoughts, I suppose I can’t really ignore what keeps our minds busy these days.
Being grateful sounds like a simple thing. Of course I started to wonder about if we really should be grateful for certain things, like being alive. Are we really supposed to be grateful to be alive? The way I look at it, I can’t find a good reason to be grateful to be alive. Since I don’t remember anything about me being not alive, and since I don’t remember it hurting or uncomfortable to be not alive. I wonder if that really is what I should be grateful for.
See, I’m sure of two things: 1) I got born once, apparently a painful and traumatizing experience and 2) I will die one day, apparently that could be another painful and traumatizing experience. Before 1 and after 2 I’m not existing, and therefore there is no me who is in pain or being uncomfortable. Therefore, I am not as much grateful for being alive, but rather for the painless, interesting and helpful way my life is being experienced. I am only one cog in the wheel of life of Mother Nature. Quite a responsibility.
I am grateful for my upbringing; My parents teaching me how I can be a positive addition to life on planet earth and how to make the best of it for me and all other living things around me. It is my responsibility to respect life and treat all I’m given by earth, which is pretty much everything, with the same respect. And I am grateful for everything I get as an extra from earth in return for my respectful handling. (I’m not saying I’m a saint, cause I’m obviously not.)
This is what ‘Practising Gratitude’ is all about to me. If I do it right, I am grateful and green in one go. If I do it right, I lived my life the way all life was supposed to be. And now I am worried about the last judgement before I go out.
Sites:
http://www.freshnessfactorfivethousand.blogspot.com/
http://www.cafegratitude.com/
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Thursday, May 14, 2009
Get Real!
These days everybody seems preoccupied with being 'Green' and being 'Healthy' and being 'Green & Healthy'. It seems weird we're only coming around since a few years back, after hearing we're becoming fat and lazy and our little planet is not keeping up.
Like so many trends, these two are hyped up and out. I can see the good of it. Unfortunately, people are following the media like meek sheep not quite understanding what they're committing to and if all the work they put into it will actually pay off. See, that's the problem.
Being 'Green' only works when you put your heart & soul and brains into it. A simple example is the hybrid. I bet more than half of the Green-population doesn't realize what it takes to create a battery powerful enough to make a car run (for about 1 mile per hour). And they don't realize how much it will take Mother Nature to break it down after we're done using it. It's not like it's going to dissolve all by itself.
Think of all the things you do, and all the stuff you use. Think of how much it takes of Mother Nature to get your food to you, or the clothes you're wearing. We start off with planting seeds in a high powered, pollution heavy machine. Then we spray some chemicals over the plants to kill bugs. Next we grow the plants by watering them with high powered, pollution heavy watering systems. Then we spray them some more. And so on, and so on. Before it gets to you, your product caused some (serious) damage already. For the food you can go Bio, but have you ever heard of Bio clothing? I did: http://blendapparel.com/
Mother Nature also puts out loads of crap. Think of all the volcanoes. The volcanoes spit out more CO2 than we can in our little cars. Think of where your product comes from; the earth. All the stuff you use came from the earth somehow; even when it's created in a chemical process. It was already there; where else did we take it from? We just helped getting it out in the open air faster. Too fast for Mother Nature to clean up behind us.
Being 'Healthy' only works when you put your heart & soul and brains into it. Let's take the raw food followers. These people only eat products which are not cooked at all, or heated to only a certain temperature. This means, they won't be able to eat meat. They claim: "Eating meat isn't healthy." That's not true; eating too much meat isn't healthy. But that goes for everything. Eating too much fruit, vegetables and nuts and seeds won't help you either. All those natural ingredients provide us, human beings, all kind of proteins, vitamins and minerals, and what more, we need. A healthy diet contains out of a mix of all above mentioned and all taken with moderation. Not the food is our enemy, the way we prepare it or how much we eat, is the enemy.
What I find striking is how raw food people tell new followers to go take pills for extra vitamins and all the stuff they're missing out. Then I think, just eat normal and you don't need to take those pills. Another striking example is some scientist who claims the human brains started to grow and develop when they started to cook (meat). Because of the meat, our brains could grow and develop the way it did and we gained a whole new set of abilities. Another striking example is a mother who let her child only eat raw food. Because of that, the poor kid got behind on the growing schedule.
This new trend already has its victims. Ever heard of Orthorexia Nervosa? Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
The problem is not that we should do something about all the crap we’re putting out into the world or putting into our mouths. The problem is that people only know half the facts. I wish people get more educated before they decide to commit themselves to some of kind group to save the world or our fat children and call everybody out for not doing the way they would do it.
Get a life! Please!!!
Like so many trends, these two are hyped up and out. I can see the good of it. Unfortunately, people are following the media like meek sheep not quite understanding what they're committing to and if all the work they put into it will actually pay off. See, that's the problem.
Being 'Green' only works when you put your heart & soul and brains into it. A simple example is the hybrid. I bet more than half of the Green-population doesn't realize what it takes to create a battery powerful enough to make a car run (for about 1 mile per hour). And they don't realize how much it will take Mother Nature to break it down after we're done using it. It's not like it's going to dissolve all by itself.
Think of all the things you do, and all the stuff you use. Think of how much it takes of Mother Nature to get your food to you, or the clothes you're wearing. We start off with planting seeds in a high powered, pollution heavy machine. Then we spray some chemicals over the plants to kill bugs. Next we grow the plants by watering them with high powered, pollution heavy watering systems. Then we spray them some more. And so on, and so on. Before it gets to you, your product caused some (serious) damage already. For the food you can go Bio, but have you ever heard of Bio clothing? I did: http://blendapparel.com/
Mother Nature also puts out loads of crap. Think of all the volcanoes. The volcanoes spit out more CO2 than we can in our little cars. Think of where your product comes from; the earth. All the stuff you use came from the earth somehow; even when it's created in a chemical process. It was already there; where else did we take it from? We just helped getting it out in the open air faster. Too fast for Mother Nature to clean up behind us.
Being 'Healthy' only works when you put your heart & soul and brains into it. Let's take the raw food followers. These people only eat products which are not cooked at all, or heated to only a certain temperature. This means, they won't be able to eat meat. They claim: "Eating meat isn't healthy." That's not true; eating too much meat isn't healthy. But that goes for everything. Eating too much fruit, vegetables and nuts and seeds won't help you either. All those natural ingredients provide us, human beings, all kind of proteins, vitamins and minerals, and what more, we need. A healthy diet contains out of a mix of all above mentioned and all taken with moderation. Not the food is our enemy, the way we prepare it or how much we eat, is the enemy.
What I find striking is how raw food people tell new followers to go take pills for extra vitamins and all the stuff they're missing out. Then I think, just eat normal and you don't need to take those pills. Another striking example is some scientist who claims the human brains started to grow and develop when they started to cook (meat). Because of the meat, our brains could grow and develop the way it did and we gained a whole new set of abilities. Another striking example is a mother who let her child only eat raw food. Because of that, the poor kid got behind on the growing schedule.
This new trend already has its victims. Ever heard of Orthorexia Nervosa? Read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthorexia_nervosa
The problem is not that we should do something about all the crap we’re putting out into the world or putting into our mouths. The problem is that people only know half the facts. I wish people get more educated before they decide to commit themselves to some of kind group to save the world or our fat children and call everybody out for not doing the way they would do it.
Get a life! Please!!!
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