Time is going so fast, everyone is so busy, with no time to think. Doing, doing, doing; consuming, consuming, consuming. Going here, going there: driving, walking, riding, running. With so many people and many more to come, perhaps, we get closer and closer to running out - of everything. We get closer to the brink.
Have we been there before? Maybe, I think... pushed to the edge like lemmings and over we go... the abyss swallows us up and spits out the bones - our paltry remains being the only evidence we were ever here.
They say that mindfulness - being ever present in the current moment - the now - is a way to counteract the trend. If I think about it every time I buy a plastic bottle of water, then maybe I won’t; or every time I have to discard food that’s old, then maybe I’ll make sure I eat it within the time frame - less wastage. If we collectively change our actions today, each one of us, then maybe we can create a better future that pulls us back from that brink.
Maybe. We are on the brink of change right now. Not tomorrow or next week, but now.
Hmm, it feels like there's a theme here, but I'm out of guesses now. I'll have to wait till you catch up with comments and give me some more clues :)
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"I've heard your words, I've acted fast,
The fridge now has a shrink."
"You idiot, I told you that,
It's on the blink, not brink!"
Greg - eh, nothing exciting. Just going with some life inspired chaos for the prompts for a few days.
ReplyDeleteI would be very concerned if my fridge was on the brink. Not sure I'd hire a shrink, but it seems like a reasonable reaction...
On the Brink
ReplyDeleteTime is going so fast, everyone is so busy, with no time to think.
Doing, doing, doing; consuming, consuming, consuming.
Going here, going there: driving, walking, riding, running.
With so many people and many more to come, perhaps, we get closer and closer to running out - of everything. We get closer to the brink.
Have we been there before? Maybe, I think... pushed to the edge like lemmings and over we go... the abyss swallows us up and spits out the bones - our paltry remains being the only evidence we were ever here.
They say that mindfulness - being ever present in the current moment - the now - is a way to counteract the trend. If I think about it every time I buy a plastic bottle of water, then maybe I won’t; or every time I have to discard food that’s old, then maybe I’ll make sure I eat it within the time frame - less wastage. If we collectively change our actions today, each one of us, then maybe we can create a better future that pulls us back from that brink.
Maybe. We are on the brink of change right now. Not tomorrow or next week, but now.
Dragonfly - hear hear! Well said, truly.
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