When No One Is to Blame, We Are All Responsible

What do we need to learn right now in order to easily adapt to the changes in the environment we live in?

What do future generations want from us?

Will they find a better world if we keep doing exactly what we've done so far?

Looking at the various photos circulating on social media, I notice with joy how, at last, quiet has returned — to the streets, to the air, to the water. At last the planet is breathing, cleansing itself.

What's on the inside shows up on the outside, and the other way around. Seen this way, maybe this is a call for me, for you, for all of us to breathe. To take a break from the daily noise and turmoil and give ourselves the time to notice what's happening around us.

Have the actions we've taken so far actually led us toward evolution and progress?
I think the answer is easy to find if we look at what's been happening around us for a while now: consumerism, material accumulation at any cost and without limit, even at the cost of human and animal lives.

People have started talking about mental health more and more. Talking about it more, because we don't have the courage to truly look at ourselves and accept that, so often, we forget to be human toward one another.

We forget that the planet is actually our home, not the walls we build around ourselves.
We forget that what one person does affects everyone, sooner or later.
Healing, a return to normal, depends on all of us, and on each of us individually.

Do you want to keep going in the same turmoil and noise, or will you take responsibility for the system and the world you live in?

The mindset of:

"let things be good for me and my family, nothing else matters."

no longer works.

What's happening right now on a global scale is a wake-up call — a call to kindness, empathy, and above all, awareness of the ENVIRONMENT we live in and that we create every single day, starting with our thoughts and ending with our actions.

Maybe it's hard to think about future generations right now.

Let's look closer to home, at the air you breathe every day. It's pointless to turn to all sorts of therapies, the best doctors and the most revolutionary treatments, if you don't get to the root of the problem: the environment.

What purpose drives what you do every day?

Who — and HOW — do you influence?
How are you influenced by the people around you?

For a while now, a saying keeps echoing in my mind:

"rather than do something that harms the environment and the people around you, it's better to do nothing at all."

I don't like giving advice or telling people what to do. The internet is full of advice thrown to the wind, which everyone approves of but no one applies. I believe each of us knows best what we can do for our own good, for others, and for the planet.
The question is:

DO YOU WANT TO?

Or are you still waiting for "miracles"?

From what I can see, planet Earth can exist without people, but people without HER... that's much harder to say.

To be continued,

Raluca

P.S: this article is part of the "A Call to Wake Up" series, which will have several parts, written by several contributors.

P.P.S: I'm leaving here a few videos that inspired me to write this article: How The Wildlife Trade Started The Coronavirus

Dear Future Generations: Sorry

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