A couple months ago, I watched Wall E.
Not so long after that, I had a quite interesting lecture-radio pharmacy.
Long before, I met a guy, named Mr. Arfian.
Well- so what?
Wall E- honestly, the story was not so special. What interests me is the background of it: Earth was in a total mess; the only things left are rubbishes, while us- oops, men there, had to live in outer space, in a huge spacecraft, for generations. They grew very very very corpulent, because machines served them and took over every work n move, even just the very simple ones. At first, I found that the phenomena shown were so hyperbolic and seemed impossible. But then a question came to mind: O-ow, were they?
Rewind your mind: Slowly but sure, we’re coming toward them, right? Then it hurts me that there’s nothing I can give, but a ‘yes’.
First, new products (machines?) invented are simultaneously released and offered to us, promising an easier way to life. They do spoil us too much, don’t they?
Then, next, is the fact that we do yield waste everyday, everywhere. Some issues had come to surface that in some points, we can’t come over waste troubles anymore. What if we reach the point when the earth is no longer capable to afford them? Will soon come, the day when there is no more space to accommodate them? Are we going to miss so many things about the earth today?
Some days later, in my radio pharmacy lecture, a classmate asked: “Sir, what do we do to the nuclear waste yielded by those processes?” And I was quite startled of the answer, “Nothing we can do to destroy them,” (actually, I was thinking (hoping?) of something like recycling or anything similar to it, oh, how could I be that fool?), “All we can do is just storing them in a proper container and letting them decay themselves, minimizing these irradiation stuffs usage, and also preferring radioactive substances owning shortest half life.” My mind went back to Wall E, and I started to imagine. Those wastes- any wastes- are somehow really threatening. In this case, we have radioactive substances that undergo intensive studies and are getting more and more promising. I went further ~ well, human are usually unstoppable, so ~ what if? What if? What if?
Anyway, maybe I’m getting too hyperbolic, but I’m afraid I’m saying the truth.
So, rubbish, waste, trash, are really urgent stuffs to think of. N, yeah, there were several issues I’d already heard about them.
What I stated above doesn’t really bother me, oh, my, until these very recent days I somehow remembered the day at the first time I met somebody named Mr. Arfian in a workshop my comrades and I organized. He is an entrepreneur that we asked to be one of the guest speakers in the workshop. At the moment, I was in charge of welcoming him. On the way to the destined room (where the event was held), he did something surprising me: he took a plastic glass-trash- he (well, we) found on the path and put it in the proper container- the trash can. I was drowned into silence, while seeing it as if it is a really great phenomenon, wow, wow, wow.
Have you got the whole idea of what I’m trying to say? The point is NOT about the issues, it’s about my response to them. I did think, I felt so sorry and worried about that, then what? I always throw my rubbish in its container- just MINE, ok, that’s good enough, but I learnt that actually I could throw others, too, and maybe there were still many more things I could do that I didn’t do.
Then I jumped into the conclusion: it’s really important to keep thinking, but what really matters is my act following it. Plenty of issues- about anything: earth maintaining, politics, health, etc- have been blown up by those who really do care. What I suppose to do is to listen to them, not just to hear. Then I must keep evaluating myself to make sure that what I’ve done are all I can do, until those left are things that are out of my reach. It has not been working yet, though =).
I think that’s all for now. Just a little share- Keep doing your best!
-ninone-
April 8th, 2009, 11:17 p.m.
*So why do we keep strangling life,
wound this earth, crucify its soul?
Though it is plain to see
this world is heavenly
be God’s glow
-Heal the World, M.J.-*
