"If you could broadcast a thirty-second message to the entire world - over seven billion people - what would you say?"
There would have been a time when I would have voiced my concerns about over-population, and questioned whether having a child was a good thing for the child or the rest of the world, given the future that might await it (that I believe will await it). But I've learned that there is no point, that the voice of rationality and numbers is not heard here. (And it does have its potential, scary, drawbacks.)
BUT I think it's too late now - so there isn't really a whole lot of point. Instead, well, here you go:
People of this world! We are screwed. We have only a certain amount of time left. What, therefore, is the best way we can use these...decades? I think we might have some decades left. Maybe, if we are lucky, a hundred years!
So how should we spend them?
We should be kind. We should be kind to everyone. We should talk to our friends and our mothers and fathers. We should smile at the people we walk past in the street and maybe even say hi - even smiling at the people in their cars who beep at us or the people who are shouting and angry. And those people - the angry ones - we need to make them happy, or as happy as we can. Talk to them - what is hurting them, and how can we help them to get rid of, or at the very least lessen, it?
Do not worry about MONEY.
There is no point in earning and saving money for the future. And, even if there was, wouldn't it be a far nicer thing to go round to your lonely old neighbour's house and have a cup of tea than pull an extra shift at work? (Unless you happen to have an awesome job, like me :) )
And how would you rather spend your money? Buying more shit you do not need? Re-doing your kitchen one more time? Buying an extra jumper because so far you don't have a lavender-coloured one, or, at least, not a lavender-coloured one that was made this year in that very special style that is now 'in'? Or would you rather spend your pounds/dollars etc. helping make a home for a homeless person or a refugee? (And then spend sometime helping that man or woman to be happy. Give them your support, your time, your love.)
We don't have much of this life-gift left. So let's try to make sure that life IS actually a gift for as many people as possible. Not some shit present that they would rather be without.
P.S. The picture is from Thor: Ragnarok. Apparently 'Ragnarok' = End of the World in I guess Norse mythology or something.
There would have been a time when I would have voiced my concerns about over-population, and questioned whether having a child was a good thing for the child or the rest of the world, given the future that might await it (that I believe will await it). But I've learned that there is no point, that the voice of rationality and numbers is not heard here. (And it does have its potential, scary, drawbacks.)
BUT I think it's too late now - so there isn't really a whole lot of point. Instead, well, here you go:
People of this world! We are screwed. We have only a certain amount of time left. What, therefore, is the best way we can use these...decades? I think we might have some decades left. Maybe, if we are lucky, a hundred years!
So how should we spend them?
We should be kind. We should be kind to everyone. We should talk to our friends and our mothers and fathers. We should smile at the people we walk past in the street and maybe even say hi - even smiling at the people in their cars who beep at us or the people who are shouting and angry. And those people - the angry ones - we need to make them happy, or as happy as we can. Talk to them - what is hurting them, and how can we help them to get rid of, or at the very least lessen, it?
Do not worry about MONEY.
There is no point in earning and saving money for the future. And, even if there was, wouldn't it be a far nicer thing to go round to your lonely old neighbour's house and have a cup of tea than pull an extra shift at work? (Unless you happen to have an awesome job, like me :) )
And how would you rather spend your money? Buying more shit you do not need? Re-doing your kitchen one more time? Buying an extra jumper because so far you don't have a lavender-coloured one, or, at least, not a lavender-coloured one that was made this year in that very special style that is now 'in'? Or would you rather spend your pounds/dollars etc. helping make a home for a homeless person or a refugee? (And then spend sometime helping that man or woman to be happy. Give them your support, your time, your love.)
We don't have much of this life-gift left. So let's try to make sure that life IS actually a gift for as many people as possible. Not some shit present that they would rather be without.
P.S. The picture is from Thor: Ragnarok. Apparently 'Ragnarok' = End of the World in I guess Norse mythology or something.
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