As i pick my brain for publicity ideas with regards to NYEC or better known as the National Youth Enviromental Conference, a tiny gray spot appears on the muscle in my body people generally hold responsible for the production of emotions. (don't know why... its not scientific) Yes. emotions. (that nasty thing men generally accuse women of having in excess.)- I apologize for the diversion of my mind.
To get back to the point, the grey spot, like a lethel biological invader inserted itself into my cells and started using my cell's resources to propagate and spread its nasty grey offspring around. These nasty bits needless to say, copied the behaviour of their progenitors and proceeded to infest my emotion generating muscle with an all pervading grey gloom commonly known as despair.
Event after event. There are so many of them! They cry out to the population! Save the enviroment! love your fellow human beings! Lets work together! Lets change this! Lets change that! Save this! Save that! The world will be a better place!
Are they really working? If they are, why are we still combating the rise of usage, pollutants, infectious diseases? Why are we still combating the widening income gap? Why are we still raising funds for the victims of disasters? Please note that if any progress has been made for the past years, rising consumption, widening income gaps, disaster after disaster are not the things we should be combating! Instead, we should be working on reversing the damage. Not stopping or trying to slow our fellow human beings from causing even more damage. We should be working on new methods and habits we can adopt to be friendlier to our world. Not trying to get people to adopt new practices to prevent them from causing more harm with others. Perhaps i'm too anxious. Perhaps the time will come. But now... I cannot help but gasp at the ineffectuality of the endless parade of official sounding events and movements. The main problem is that i cannot see with my own eyes that people are being influenced by these events. I cannot see the visible change that is taking place. People just do not seem to be responding.
However, there is an area that persistently fights against the grey. Yes. Thats the little spot on my emotion generating muscle that holds a potent substance that differentiates me from my dead counterparts. Cheesy as it may sound. Yes alison... Hope had and will always be in our emotion generating muscle... whilst it beats anyway.
Hope is now telling me that these events do have one probable use. Our generation, us. We young people of today have through these events been exposed to so much more than our parents generation. We have come together to discuss ideas, to form plans. To learn from the wisdom of older experts in their fields and in turn infuse their knowledge with our hopeful exuberence. We are the hope of tomorrow. When we take over, we will have the power to put all these into solid, concrete laws, decrees even, plans that we will decide on and carry out. I just pray that it will not be too late then.
But before that, we must respond. Complacency has set in. Whilst water flows when the taps are turned on and food arrives steaming hot on the tables when called, all the knowledge and exposure given seems to lie peacefully at the back of heads, put aside for "when it gets serious", or "when i grow up". This problem is such a serious one, for it is the integral attitude and mindset in it that will influence all our decisions and priorities when we actually do have the power to make great changes. We cannot know what is happening and not follow through with our knowledge. What is the use then? All these events and movements, all put to waste. When we are armed with knowledge, we must follow through by changing them into action. Its so simple. Adopt a child with world vision. Refuse plastic bags. Turn off the tap while you are soaping. Use a cup when brushing your teeth. Use both sides of the paper when printing. Treat everone equally. When something like that is done, all will be worth it. For the mindset of following through and acting on problems has been established. With this attitude, we can rise up to the challenge and set the world straight. We must take that extra step of physically "following through".
I will keep fighting, grey splotch or not, for that one little shiny spot.
I have hope for the world for i have faith in our generation. The platforms have been set. Now lets take them to another level.
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