Reflections

"I've learned.... That life is like a roll of toilet paper. The closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes." ~ Andy Rooney

I am always reminded of this quote whenever I think of where time went. Time... life... time.... what have I done? time.. life... time... what does my life mean? As you can see from my previous posts, I have given up documenting my life and my thoughts for the past three years. I am always bewildered with awe when I ask someone what they did on a specific date in the past, and they can recall in detail actual events without references. Rediscovering my blog today, I have renewed respect for myself for the things I have written. How stupid I will be if I have to keep re-learning lessons in life. I guess in keeping a blog, I can share my new found knowledge and references interesting things I pick up on my journey of life. Hopefully my new found motivation will last beyond today.

"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them."  ~Mark Twain, attributed


Whens the last time you read a book? I mean truly snuggled up with one, getting lost in the words, in your world of imagination. I loved reading when I was a kid and I would choose a fantasy novel over a movie any day. Today, I have many books piled up in a dusty cupboard and I say to myself "someday, I will read them... someday". Yesterday, I took the liberty to read an inspirational book "Legacy" by David Suzuki during my lunch break. I was inspired! It brought new meaning to the words "our environment" and "sustainability". The over use of these words through marketing and political agendas have dulled their meanings. We live our lives are encased in a city, a unit of a large network, a function of the economy that we have forgotten the scale of our impact on the environment, the earth that we share with all living things.

Suzuki said "what if our economy were organized not around the lifeless abstractions of neoclassical economics and accountancy but around the biological realities of nature?" There would be so many new possibilities of co existing with other species on earth. (Does sound like I am supporting dictatorship or at least life on Navi' - Avatar). A great way to sum up this idea is what Bernard Lown said "We must convince each generation that they are transient passengers on this planet earth. It does not belong to them. They are not free to doom generations yet unborn. They are not at liberty to erase humanity's past nor dim its future."

"Beyond the air there is only emptiness, coldness, darkness. The "boundless" blue sky, the ocean which gives us breath and protects us from the endless black and death, is but an infinitesimally thin film. How dangerous it is to threaten even the smallest part of this gassamer covering, this conserver of life." ~VALDIMIR SHATALOV, Soviet cosmonaut.

We are made up of water, water recycled on this earth. We breath in air, air recycled through the breath that your ancestors took and that your children will take. We are nutrients from the earth, earth that fed plants that fed animals that gives us life. Whoever pollutes the air, water or earth around them is committing a slow suicide. (Suzuki puts it more graciously than this).

Ever since I was a little girl, I loved being with animals and out in nature. I think I have a very strong sense of what they call "biophilia". The book explained it as that human beings evolved out of a state of nature and have lived in the company of many other species on whom we depend for survival as food and companionship. Therefore, biophilia is an innate need to 'affiliate with other species". Right now, I know I have an innate need to affiliate with Draco :)