Monday, 30 July 2012
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Disposable....people
Been talking with my girls a lot lately about relationships esp one of my youngest,I have twin girls. E is the blonde version of me with an extra dose of Scott stubborn from her dad... She is struggling the most bc she is the most ppl oriented & she loves to help. The conversation or should I say our common rant was about this disposable culture.
I doubt they knew that they were taking the first steps towards world destruction by way of inventing the first disposables.
They were supposed to be helpful & freeing, on the instant level it feels like they are, but almost every self gain has repercussions & Disposables have had a bigger 'karma' than most realize.
Being disposable isn't just water bottles, razors, plates,cups OR a SEA of never ending plastic, it has found it's way into our very thinking,the very fabric of our lives- the foundation of families.
The Disposable attitudes have creeped into relationships. We the Ppl no longer work on relationships we dispose of them when we're DONE with them. We have forgotten how to fix things, we just go get more & throw the broken out. We throw ppl away, ppl have become disposable.
As my years go by I find myself living what was once called a Victory Garden, I grow a lot of my own foods, I make my own dirt. & this has in-turn changed how I live, I buy things I can make myself or repair.The attitude of a Victory Garden can change our culture as well, for the better; Not only will we make our world safer, but will save relationships...will save families.
I Challenge you all to take steps away from disposable thinking & Towards Victory, starting today.
Change starts with one you, one family, & one day at a time.
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I've been thinking about this from a bit of a different angle. The idea of a Victory Garden is incredible! I want to look into that more as I don't know entirely what it entails. Cool post, and I agree!
i love this. i think you are absolutely right. you know i don't mean i love that we live disposably.
Keep blogging away, Kris! =) And this is excellent to remember, indeed
aye how do you "make your own dirt"?
I'm all for sustainability. I'll have to think on how this applies to people, but instinctively, I feel that you are probably right.
so true.
@Mockdonimus_Tuntsweet - I compost all my mowing clippings & the house scraps, I do it in a a round pin that makes it go a lot faster. I can have a wheel barrel full of my own dirt in about a month.
When we get a new house we will have one. We tried to here, but there just isn't enough water. It is very sad how our culture thinks this way of people. I was thinking along these lines how people will use each other for sex in one night stands, and think since both parties are just using each other it's okay. But I think it hurts their souls. Deep emotional damage that surfaces in other ways.
GREAT post!
wait, this is a bad thing?
people suuuck
I seem to be very keen on how to grow weeds. I think the green-thumb (like the art-thumb) made a wrong turn when it came across my path.
I feel you. People don't realize the damage they do. And when it's them, they cry like it's the end of the world. We have a very strange society. People perceive from themselves and themselves alone.
@Kris0logy - Wow, I never imagined that you could just make dirt. Damn girl you are actually impressive. I actually started getting house plants for my crib, to improve the air, but they kept dying. The only ones that lived are the ZZ plants, and I guess it takes a lot to kill them. So what's the natural soil like down where you live in TX....I used to live down in Austin, and it was just awful, rocky and dry.
@ShimmerBodyCream - here let me clean your glasses..they don't all suck...mostly the exotic movie industry does that....
We don't have a victory garden, a friend that does said that there was too much shade, but to do the very back of our backyard isn't so expensive that I think I will take a shot at it. It won't be large, 4-5 plants of each but it wasn't but a couple of years ago that we planted a little switch of a fig bush and it is now 8 ft tall and about the same in diameter. We also tried a couple of pots of chili pequine peppers and these 2 little pot plants have filled a couple of quart jars. If we have the same luck with okra, squash (2 kinds) and beans all along the back fence should keep us going for awhile. I don't really have room for potatoes and corn and we use too much garlic to plant unless we go down the fence row front to back. Main problem is that we live in Texas and rain is a problem, even gardens can be watered only twice a week and last year we were cut to once a week. Good luck if you have planted squash, those peach colored blooms you would almost want to pick for a centerpiece.
I'm bothered by disposable or disposed people but I have no answers for that one. Especially with senior people, everyone should adopt one. I had mine and have never regretted it. When I went to the store, she went with me, when I would go shopping she went with me but more than that I don't have the room to tell you everything she did for me.
@mommachatter - I live in TX too, look into Square foot gardening & if you have a farmer friend straw makes a great mulch. Tom & peppers love our heat & here I grow them in the shade under a pecan which branches out mid May, making ita sunny spot until it gets HOT.
Disposable people? Some people I've seen subscribe to a philosophy of a disposable life. -_-
@Mockdonimus_Tuntsweet - Compost!
I completely agree.
Definitely agree with you. Couldn't have said it better myself
I too have begun to see this... it has broken me from the inside out. I'm a very relational person. If I listed the things most important to me, people would be number one.
I have made an effort to walk in love, love in a way that everyone has value.
Its easy to dispose things when they serve us no purpose... this is where the problem is. We are self-seeking. =[
Guilty as charged. I understand the ideas behind disposable culture - the people being disposed of is way too common. Especially to the elderly. If you don't have a degree, you are "disposable"- anyone in their eyes can take your place. Once a friendship is beyond repair, I toss it. I don't neccesarily like all this, but have seen it and are guilty as charged of viewing that mentality - because I have had to apply it to myself.
Terrific post...Very thought provoking.
I agree absolutely, and I fight this attitude however I can. It is difficult, though, to save and repair when the products now are made to last no more than 6 months. Just so, it is hard to build lasting relationships when so few are willing to put effort into maintaining and preserving them. I hope that this is just a societal phase which will soon pass.
Unborn babies are disposable. A child born with a birth defect is disposable. In Holland where euthanasia is legal, there have been cases of doctors deciding an old person is disposable.