Its time.

It has been over two months since my last blog.  The quick update is a new job, a wonderful man who I deeply love, and going back to school. It is a rather positive experience of continuing my education in an institution which has stirred my mind and shaken my thoughts in a way I never expected.  I look at the world a little differently now - I am increasingly aware of how we are destroying it.  Now this is not some outright liberal message for everyone to get involved or buy a hybrid.  You’ve heard all that before.  I am just stating my point of view from a cynics perspective on the world.

I believe it is a combination of things: FGCU defining sustainability for me;  News articles describing daily the effects of global warming (species extinction, the autumn leaves not changing color, etc.); the awareness of exactly who the future is.  Pictures of friends’ babies and children, especially Mira, are stark images of beings who hold the capacity to learn our ways or learn new ways.  They have been born in an interesting time: a  world of overconsumption altering to a world of just enough; a country who’s proud red white and blue is about to turn green.  They say green is the new black.  I disagree; it should not be a fashion statement or a trend. 

I am almost certain everyone is tired of hearing about all of this ecological necessity for change.  But its not coming from treehugging hippies or PETA activists anymore.  What seems to be overstated is only the prologue to a story we can try to predict; we can assume outcomes or define it as fictional nonsense.  This is a ‘choose-your-own-adventure’ kind of story though, one in need of a collective page turning, and one in need of writers, not an audience.

Lately I have felt very detatched from my friends, my family, my past.  It is my own fault.  I have been quite distracted though and will likely remain so.  I hope to be distracted with involvement, not some extremist who becomes an environmental evangelist, but as one who realizes we all owe the world.  There are so many of us who say “I’m only one person: what can I do?” I’d rather say “I’m one person and I do what I can.”

After all, it takes only a small push to make a movement.

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