when the cup always stay empty
Environment?
Like the pale blue dot
insignificant in the vastness of the cosmos.
Millions of years, and we still do not know who we really are.
But we all have learn’t what each and one of us wants.
We have learn’t how to get those wants, at all costs, at any cost.
And only a single lifetime to chase after it, and still never have enough.
So give me a reason why we should worry about our planet?
Why should we make time to care for our environment?
What is it worth anyway?
It has always been there,
we didn’t ask for it, we didn’t have to pay for it,
we didn’t have to fight for it, we didn’t have to suffer not having it.
Yet.
How long will I be here, what is a lifespan compared to the eternity?
So why should I bother? The environment is melting down,
I will be gone before it turns too hostile to support life.
Someday, oneday, we will all have to die, won’t we?
The dreams we had, most will stay unfulfilled
the ambitions we had may stay unachieved
desires we had, not all fulfilled,
promises broken, perhaps
or unkept.
Just like those
unfulfilled dreams and desires, and unachieved ambitions
we will leave behind a half scorched planet, dying in an environment
so evil with the poisons that we have generously filled it over the years.
I know, for every one of us who will today promise to save our planet
there will be hundreds if not thousands who will not, or
many whose promise will be empty and worthless.
So why should I join a battle, that has already been lost?
MsCutePants said this on October 15th, 2007 at 06:19
The sad unfortunate truth. Hopefully we are mindful & caring enough that we’d want to make the planet a better place for our children or grandchildren. But not everyone wants to have children so, what then? It’s hard to convince people to give back to Mother Earth what we have so selfishly taken.
the7new7ramanujan said this on October 15th, 2007 at 08:11
hats off, little indian -da. Thank you very much for this care.
earthpal said this on October 16th, 2007 at 06:16
Little Indian, well said. I often feel that way myself.
I was supposed to take part in the Blog Action day myself yesterday but I just couldnt find the inspiration to write anything positive.
All I feel I can do is teach my children by example to respect their human brethren and all other life that dwells on our beautiful (but often cruel) planet.
little indian said this on October 16th, 2007 at 12:04
@ mscutepants
thanks for stopping by,
yes the selfish I wins in the end.
I was given that Ancient American Indian Proverb.
We have borrowed the earth from our future generation,
but what an earth we will be handing over to them when we go.
little indian said this on October 16th, 2007 at 12:07
no problem 7new7ramanujan-bhai 🙂
littleindian -da, I like that.
that would be chhotda wouldn’t it?
little indian said this on October 16th, 2007 at 12:17
thanks earthie,
environment, is a lost battle.
I liken the destruction to the momentum of a large oil tanker gone out of control.
Even if the brakes are applied now, it will take decades to see any change in pace of the destruction, if at all.
Faulty brakes at that.
little indian said this on October 16th, 2007 at 12:19
thanks earthie,
the environment,
I liken the destruction to the momentum of a large oil tanker gone out of control. Even if the brakes are applied now, it will take decades to see any change in pace of the destruction, if at all. Faulty brakes at that.
Mankind, the humanity as a whole does not care what happen’s to the earth’s future, a battle truly lost.
BENDTHERULZ said this on October 17th, 2007 at 05:19
Namaste’ , your post are always a treat to read,so many issues which are closer to my heart, you just write about them and I love reading them.
Yeah – I know so many times my little efforts just seem paltry in comparison to the destruction I keep seeing .
Sorry 🙁
little indian said this on October 17th, 2007 at 14:55
thanks BTRulz, and nomoshkar to you too.
I have become so reliant on you and earthpal and some others that without your feedbacks, my blogs seems incomplete.
So, you are very welcome.
And many thanks for your continuing support.
inel said this on October 17th, 2007 at 20:01
Dear little indian,
The answer is simply …
because …
we are …
human.
Don’t lose hope.
I thought about the pale blue dot.
And you wrote about it, for good and for BAD*.
How cool is that?
*Blog Action Day certainly has a bad three-letter acronym!
little indian said this on October 17th, 2007 at 21:39
🙂 I missed the acronym, I must confess.
Thanks for stopping by Inel.
And I still hold on to the Ancient Indian proverb.
I also wrote this for the BAD day. http://www.awmyth.net/india/?p=45
That is my blogsite purely for Indian issues.