just now i said aloud "i'm so hungry" and then i instantly regretted saying it because i realized i'm NOT THAT hungry. i'm just a bit hungry. and even when i'm REALLY hungry it probably doesn't compare to what people who don't have constant access to food really feel... whenever we say grace before our meals and give thanks to God for the food that we so readily have and for the lifestyle that we live... are we really actually grateful? sometimes i feel like i'm just grateful at that moment but later on i'm going to complain about this and that... i want to know what it means to be truly thankful for the lifestyle that God has blessed with. but i don't mean that because we live better off lives we are any better than those who have, materially, less. i once watched some program about some people who would go experience what it means to live under hardships and after a time that the people spent homeless for a couple days, one of them said that it's not that one is any better than the other, just that we are blessed with different circumstances.
i guess what really got me thinking about this whole thing is my geog203 class haha which i've blogged about many times. i recently watched a video clip about electronic wastes and how we always want new technology or old technology is quickly replaced by new stuff. the old stuff gets shipped away to the poor parts of the world where people sort through our toxic waste in order to get scraps of metal and other minerals they can sell to earn a living. however the practices they use to extract this is extremely toxic and harmful to their health. it's very expensive to do this in a healthier manner so companies don't want to pay these costs and send them away. the clip shows a man in india using toxic methods to extract things out of old computers and he says "i know i'm wasting my life, but i don't want my children to waste theirs" :( and then in a small village in China, all you see is piles of old technology and people using dangerous methods like heating lead and then breathing it in >< it made me want to cry T_T it really bothered me after class as i walked to slc... i guess it made me want to know and be TRULY grateful... idunnoooo it's sad =( but just feels lk theres nothing i can do
on a less serious note.. i'm done midterms until after reading week anddd i think it overall went okay? it was kind of a tough second week but i think God really brought me through it and at the end of my last midterm for the week, i stepped out of B1 and the weather was absolutely WONDERFUL and ... it was just beautiful haha thank you God so much SO MUCH :)
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hi....why r we not sleeping?
but yea, i researched on e-waste in highschool and the situation is really pretty depressing although the upside is it does provide jobs.
We talk about sustainability all the time but sometimes it becomes empty talk and boils down to us achieving sustainability by depriving others communities of their chance to do so. There are special disposal collections that promise they will treat the waste properly and not through dumping them in developing countries. There are also electronic products which are made environmentally friendly so they won't cause much of a harm when they outlast their lifespan. And i guess as planners, the big picture idea must come in. If we don't call for sustainable development, the other side of the world or some other place will feel the pinch. Or it might become a boomerang and come back to bite us. It all hangs on a beautiful but delicate balance.
Appointed as stewards of the earth and called to love (and certainly not add to the environmental injustice), the actions we have to take are quite clear. The only challenge is to reconcile the dichotomy between the despair or neglect in the daily decisions we make and the recognition in the importance of these seemingly minute everyday choices.
i'm sorry i wrote u an essay...essays are fun to write when they don't have to be written. and sadly, i'm not doing all that i mentioned above. when will i learn?
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