Go Earth Day!!!!!!

today is pretty awesome. a day devoted to the planet that we live on. there are so many issues that need to be made aware to everyone. i think about these issues on a daily basis. i find it so hard to go to the school that i do, that has no green lifestyle. i know i need to demand these things from my university but it seems to be a difficult battle as i've seen many people try to make changes and nothing will go through. but we will see.

i'm currently working on a research paper on famine. although my angle on it is based on the quality of life through food. i think the issue of hunger in the world is important. i've been thinking about it more and more. donating what i can to the food drives trying to help feed the hungry people. we waste so much food on a daily basis. growing up my parents and grandparents always told me how lucky i was to be able to have the food that we did on our dinner table. i value the food and the ability to have the options to eat whatever i may like. i know that many people out there on the planet do not. prices of rice is going up in the region of my birthplace and it bothers me that the staple food of many east asian countries are struggling to feed people.

i was thinking that at what point do you no longer become human? when do you become subhuman and not have the feelings for the world around you? there are some people out there who have more than they can ever spend in five lifetimes, yet they have no regard for the people who are suffering around them on the same planet. we all eat, we all sleep, we all need love, yet some people have no mental ability to realize that they too are human. the lack of personal interaction with each other is astonishing. we have become such a connected world through the internet and technology, yet we have no answer to the problems that can save lives. real lives. breathing, living, humans. they too have faces and feelings. what i dont understand is how we as a society became so distant towards ourselves.

i guess what i want to say in this blog today is that, be aware of the world we live in. as humans and as evolved creatures we should be more loving and understanding towards each other. buy organic buy local. recycle. reuse. carpool. smile. stop and smell the roses, because one day if we keep up the way we are now, our planet as we know it might be a distant memory. i wish all my readers a good earth day.

shalom.