Don't you ever wonder, what we could do to have a more happy live? And have a more happy Mother Earth? It's so easy, actually. Just only buy what you really need. Care about your beloved ones. Invest in meeting people, seeing special locations without your bucketlist. Just really be there. Feel it. Love it. Make pictures for ever in your heart. Because memories last longer then things. Just live!
I've been busy with some research for my book. I read a lot about developments in our world last century. It started with farming, which was a hard working life, long working days and always illness around the corner. No wonder without clean water to drink, less healthcare and knowledge. They spent days to wash or bake their bread. They made or used all the things they needed for living, no extra. There was a sort of balance. We gave and got back from nature.
Later the industry came. In the 50's people were motivated to buy (more) machines to make their life more easy and comfortable, like washing machines and coffee brewers. Because it would grow production and give more people a job. No problem, it saved time. it lasted for about 20 years and you could repair your machines.
Some decennials later we were encourage to buy more, more and more. They produced stuff which didn't last long at all. Because you need to buy new stuff within short time. We started exploiting the earth, even for products we didn't need. Just to make more and more money. Not because it was necessary but as a sort of status, to show on Facebook or impress your neighbors. Much more then we ever will need. We produce lots of clothes for example, we buy them on internet. When they don't fit you just return them to the fabric, where they throw everything away like garbage. We use all raw materials from mother earth and give back the trash without any scrupules. Our houses get more and more filled with too much stuff, we even get stressed of our filled up to the roof houses.
Meanwhile more and more people have to work too much, or too long or too stressfull. They need more and more money to pay all. The only thing we reach, is richer people getting more rich. Companies making more money. Money ruling the world. Money destroying the world and it's people too.
But more and more people meet a burnout one day because they loose their intuition, nature and contact with themselves and nature. The result is they need to pay a lot of money, they earned so difficultly, to restore their own health and recover, if it is even possible. And maybe the saddest of all, we didn't reach a decent goal: No satisfaction at all and nearly 99% from all the things we buy (because we think we need it) go to the trash within a year. Mother Earth is becoming a landfill, the seas getting a big plastic soup. Nature has more and more problems which can not be solved without humans beings help and offers.
I really hope we all will wake up in time. For ourselves, our children and Mother Earth. Stop making money for the big companies or your status, it's enough when companies can go on and you can pay your living. When yo have a roof above your head, to eat and to drink.
It's time too start real life instead. To collect experiences. To feel warmth and love. To share beautiful thinks with your nearest and dearests. Don't forget to save the good memories in your heart forever. Just because memories live longer then things.
We try to buy the things we really need for living. Life with less is more. For a lot of things you can go to the Loppis in Sweden, to buy secondhand. It's nice to look around for news things. "Another ones trash can be my treasure". Don't throw away your one year summer plants, but try to get them over the winter and enjoy them again next summer. It's fun to care of them. Try to find your creativity!
Be critical and buy only sustainable furniture in your house. I hope they will try to produce more sustainable. Go back to the start and produce products with can last a lifetime. Like our ancestors did.
Check your road in life. Check what makes you happy for more then one day or hour. Is this really the direction you want to go? Do you have fun in working? Do you do the things you like to? Is there any energy left for other things? To meet your dearest as much as you want? To cherish your good relations, your friends and family. Loose yourself in good music, feel touched or start crying when you see a nice view or picture. Just be in the moment of that day. Be in the now. Care about your home, Mother Earth. Because without, there's no life anymore.
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