On the break of dawn to the first day of 2020 after trying to be calm and collected from my interrupted sleep caused by the neighbors, I went online and saw the news. It was like the universe had sent me a sign that this year was not off to a good start. Why… cause the world is burning…
I am writing this with a very heavy heart because as much as I hope there was more I could do there is not. Therefore, the only thing I know how is to write.
As I get online every day to check, update, and read the news I find myself really frustrated and angry. My face would heat up, my teeth clenched and I could feel my palms beginning to sweat. People are posting about their day and their happy life, which by no means is wrong but it made me so angry that no one is feeling the same heat and sweat as I am. That they didn’t feel as if there’re demons out to get us or that there’s a fire lord is chasing us down the road. Why are people not scared or worried like I was? This I might never understand even if you try to explain it to me.
Some are talking about the dying animals, which yes, I am very disheartened and very hurt to see but our people, even if we don’t know them, have their house taken away. Everything taken away with no plans of what the future will be like. Imagine your whole city was to burn down. The size of Belgium burnt down. Can you imagine if your house and your neighbor’s house and your establishments and everything you know as part of your routine is gone? Can you even grasp the feeling of that because as much as I can ONLY imagine, I can’t feel what they are feeling right now.
The worst is yet to come. Because if Karma is true, and we know it is, the shit storm we’ve created since the dawn of Industrialization is now thundering above us and it is going to be a while til it’s gone or if we survive it at all. Some might feel that technology will save us but technology takes time to develop and I have a feeling we ain’t got that much time. So, we have to do it old school and we have to stop all this bullshit and take real actions.
It all starts from pollution. When one system is failing, the rest will follow. When one part of the world has dirty water, dirty air, no trees, no rivers, no lakes, no animals, no life, then it will mess with every other system like the climate, water channels, ice melting. If you still can’t see it, I hope you are the sacrificial offering to the demons that are chasing us.
The thing is that you can do as much as you can. Imagine if the world just consumes less, how much fewer resources won’t have to be taken out of the world. Entertain less and be present. You don’t have to drive out just because you are bored at home or go shopping because you’re bored or buy a flight ticket because you’re bored. Find things to do like plant a tree somewhere and make yourself a good Samaritan. Stop being so bored and it will save the world!
Anyways, I don’t think I can find any good way to end this or any positive note and I can go on forever but I hope that you at least feel the burn and the pain that I am feeling and that it will give you at least one reason to start the change now!
