Blessed is This Life and I'm Going To Celebrate Being Alive

          Due to my illness I am limited in activities that I can partake in.  Therefore I have been spending much of my time surfing the Internet or rather stumbling upon websites.  It has been a wonderful opportunity for me to pause for a moment in my life and really try and learn about as many topics as possible.  At this point anything interests me, and I am willing to hear and observe it all.  But what I have really taken notice to is all the grassroots sites that are trying have their voices heard.  

           This world is seeming more and more depressing with each passing day. We (humans-->corporations) are stripping this planet of all its' natural resources and at the same time polluting it at a very alarming rate.  Just in the last 3 decades we have consumed 1/3 of the earth's natural resources.  Americans are living in an age of consumerism, using a linear system on a finite planet. It saddens me how much we have killed this planet that we live on and how much we take life for granted instead of cherishing it.  As Richard Nixon once said, "Such a strange creature man is to foul his own nest."  So true. But at the same time, life is such a miracle, and that is what keeps me going, keeps me going with a smile on my face and a hop in my step.  Whether we can or cannot reverse the poor effects that man (really the white man started all this to be honest) has made on the world, we should not stop living.  I have realized that life is such a special opportunity and it certainly does not last forever so why not make the most out of it. A good way  of living is to live each day like it is your last and learn like you will live forever.  

           It is too bad that such globalization has taken place, that indigenous tribes are being run out of their homeland, that sacred animals are becoming extinct, that resources are scarce, water is becoming undrinkable, oceans are turning black and glistening with oil, and air is becoming thick with toxins. There are over 7 BILLION of us.  That just doesn't seem plausible.  How is the earth sustaining all of us?  At the rate the population is continuing to grow and the rate we continue to drain resources, life will surely be no more. Just remember humans cannot destroy the planet, but we can destroy its capacity to keep us alive. And we are. But as inhabitants of this planet, as human beings, we must ban together and keep on living.  We must do right.  To love one another and to love this earth and most of all, to love being ALIVE. Now go give someone a HUG.

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