Earth Hour!
A topic that truly excites me and I find touching.
Mr. Bubbles calls me the "closeted-lefty", because I seem like a cold-hearted consumerist through and through, but really on the inside, I am a greeny. Similarly, he reckons that I seem like a city kid, when at heart I really am a villager, which may automatically predetermine my leftiness, hmm I don't know.
I started out this post just now, wanting to go somewhere different; however, now that I started typing, I want to express how happy I really am to be in Australia. It brings a lot of peace to my heart and soul. I moved around so much, which by all means I really love doing and I will continue to move, but for now I am just enjoying the peace and quiet of where I am now. I can walk to town if I want to, just like I did when I was a kid. I hear birds when I wake up in the morning, like I did when I was a kid. All these things that I can do now, which I did when I was a kid. I can drive 10 minutes and be by the most beautiful beach ever. I can sit there and watch the sun set. I am really happy to be happy. Thing are so busy all the time and I forget to acknowledge of how happy I am to be where I am right now, which brings me back to what I wanted to say when I started this post.
I am getting a cycle for my 23rd birthday. Something I have wanted for a long long while, but never bought, because I am gonna leave this place soon anyway and move away again. But, as Mr. Bubbles rightly said, I can't go on living my life not doing things and getting the things I want, just because I may move at some point again. I need to enjoy my life now. I am at a happy point. And I have been since 2011 started. I really love the person I have become. I love the fact that I participated at the Earth Hour 2011 event and switched off my lights and put on candles and just sat there in silence. There usually is a buzzing noise which blends into the background, which was gone when I switched off the electricity. It was great. I loved it. When I turned the lights back on after the hour was over, I realized how much electricity we use and don't actually need. It makes me sick. But participating in the Earth Hour is much more than just about saving electricity. It's about being part of a positive movement that is happening around the world. It makes me feel connected.
I love that I don't eat meat and am slowly going off fish, too. I feel like a better person. I feel like I am contributing to the good in the world and pro-actively change the things that I don't want to happen. I watched this interview by quite a well-known German author. She has written a fair few books (which I was never aware of) and the last book was on her journey of becoming a vegetarian. This interview quite neatly captures he view on vegetarianism and it was quite inspiring and eye-opening.
It made me realize that by not consuming meat, I feel a lot more in tune with my morality. I mean why would I want to eat meat, knowing that the animals that would land on my plate have been mutilated at some stage, just out of convenience? i.e.: chickens have their beaks chopped off, which is their most sensitive part, just so they can't hack each other to death in their stalls. As she rightly says, I am sure that people do feel bad about it, but they don't like to think about it, because they are potentially afraid of what the consequences might be ....
And lastly, I love that I will get my cycle and cycle to uni, because really why should I use my car when I can cycle?
Anyhow, I hope everyone participated in the Earth Hour event. After all, you don't want to be the only one who doesn't right?
A topic that truly excites me and I find touching.
Mr. Bubbles calls me the "closeted-lefty", because I seem like a cold-hearted consumerist through and through, but really on the inside, I am a greeny. Similarly, he reckons that I seem like a city kid, when at heart I really am a villager, which may automatically predetermine my leftiness, hmm I don't know.
I started out this post just now, wanting to go somewhere different; however, now that I started typing, I want to express how happy I really am to be in Australia. It brings a lot of peace to my heart and soul. I moved around so much, which by all means I really love doing and I will continue to move, but for now I am just enjoying the peace and quiet of where I am now. I can walk to town if I want to, just like I did when I was a kid. I hear birds when I wake up in the morning, like I did when I was a kid. All these things that I can do now, which I did when I was a kid. I can drive 10 minutes and be by the most beautiful beach ever. I can sit there and watch the sun set. I am really happy to be happy. Thing are so busy all the time and I forget to acknowledge of how happy I am to be where I am right now, which brings me back to what I wanted to say when I started this post.
I am getting a cycle for my 23rd birthday. Something I have wanted for a long long while, but never bought, because I am gonna leave this place soon anyway and move away again. But, as Mr. Bubbles rightly said, I can't go on living my life not doing things and getting the things I want, just because I may move at some point again. I need to enjoy my life now. I am at a happy point. And I have been since 2011 started. I really love the person I have become. I love the fact that I participated at the Earth Hour 2011 event and switched off my lights and put on candles and just sat there in silence. There usually is a buzzing noise which blends into the background, which was gone when I switched off the electricity. It was great. I loved it. When I turned the lights back on after the hour was over, I realized how much electricity we use and don't actually need. It makes me sick. But participating in the Earth Hour is much more than just about saving electricity. It's about being part of a positive movement that is happening around the world. It makes me feel connected.
I love that I don't eat meat and am slowly going off fish, too. I feel like a better person. I feel like I am contributing to the good in the world and pro-actively change the things that I don't want to happen. I watched this interview by quite a well-known German author. She has written a fair few books (which I was never aware of) and the last book was on her journey of becoming a vegetarian. This interview quite neatly captures he view on vegetarianism and it was quite inspiring and eye-opening.
It made me realize that by not consuming meat, I feel a lot more in tune with my morality. I mean why would I want to eat meat, knowing that the animals that would land on my plate have been mutilated at some stage, just out of convenience? i.e.: chickens have their beaks chopped off, which is their most sensitive part, just so they can't hack each other to death in their stalls. As she rightly says, I am sure that people do feel bad about it, but they don't like to think about it, because they are potentially afraid of what the consequences might be ....
And lastly, I love that I will get my cycle and cycle to uni, because really why should I use my car when I can cycle?
Anyhow, I hope everyone participated in the Earth Hour event. After all, you don't want to be the only one who doesn't right?
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