The Power of Personal Commitment.
Changes: as expected through growth in stature as an Individual, Family, Families, Villages, Towns, Cities, Nations, and current Civilization as a whole.
Change for the better. As change is the only constant in Life.
Environmentally speaking, life today on our earth is definitely, a strife.
Life as a whole, for the entire living species, that lives, breathes, thrives, on this earth.
Thanks to our carelessness, in-sensitiveness, to environmental issues as displayed, both; individually and collectively, by ever multiplying humans, in the not too distant a past.
I would say: Thanks to mankinds' selfishness of these past few centuries.
What is past is past.
Let us live in the now and learn to change for the better.
Time we committed to change as individuals, at a grass root level, as an initiative to begin with.
Change we have to and we should too, very conscientiously, if we have to save the earth.
Save it for our future generations.
Just the other day, we celebrated, “Earth Day."
A day when millions of people worldwide join hands to celebrate, commit or renew, their personal commitment to tackle environmental issues, we are now over burdened with.
The sense of urgency and importance attached to this global initiative, as on date, need not be emphasized upon.
It is the need of the hour.
Period.
Although all the concerns, about environmental issues on the whole, are being aired and shared, the real action and initiative at the personal level, it is strongly felt, is not changing gears as per the need on hand.
We are not really committed in both: in letter and in spirit, at the personal level.
Committed: If not for any thing else, but to reduce the global warming threat, even by an iota, through personal contributions, as individuals.
High time we did that.
Don’t you also think so?
High time we adopted a greener life style, as well, as individuals.
High time we live, by demonstrating our concerns for the environment, through loud, noticeable, personal actions, in our day to day lives, that speak well about our individual commitment!
As example is always better than percept!
High time we demonstrated, by setting individual examples, which our children get to notice and emulate too, so as to emerge in the coming years; as a mighty, collective, power!
All of this is possible, only through: A Personal Commitment.
How many of us are really committed?
Not many.
Here is why.
1) Do you also ask this question often and not act instead?:
“What difference can an individual make?”
The answer is, yes! An individual can make all the difference in the world, to the world.
There fore begin to be that individual.
Now.
Contextually speaking in this case if you do, you are indeed like a butterfly fluttering its wings in Singapore and this action would in the end cause a Typhoon in Alaska!
2) Are you helping reduce the dependency on earths’ finite resources?
Are you really?
Here is a check list for you, to see to it and decide too, that you are.
• Do you walk to/from work?
• Do you use stairs, at least to climb down?
• Do you store and drink water from earthen pots, at least once in a while?
• Do you use car pools as a habit?
• How often do you use the bicycle?
• Do you love to use the public transport system as a habit?
• Do you recycle water?
• Does your house have a rain water harness system, built into it?
• Do you even own a solar lamp, not to talk about solar electricity supply in your home, as a default source of energy?
• Do you have a small kitchen garden/shelf/balcony/rooftop pot, that grows your basic need of herbs, if not the vegetables, you consume?
• Do you love and eat all your vegetables or you yearn for meat all the time?
• Do you carry a cloth bag to the mall when you go to shop?
• Did you give up smoking?
• Do you pick up that plastic bag/mug/plate and deposit it safely for recycling?
• Do you pay all your bills online?
• Have you learnt to: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle?
• Do you use less heat and air conditioning and rather live at room temperatures?
• Have you changed your light bulbs? I.e. replaced regular light bulbs with compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulbs.
• Have you planted and nurtured trees in your life time as an individual?
• Do you plant plants, at all?
• Do you switch off lights, fans, and conditioners as a habit, when you leave home/workplace?
• Do you purchase Energy-Efficient Products and habitually avoid products, that come with excess packaging, especially moulded plastic ones' and other packaging that cannot be recycled?
Even if you are able to conscientiously ensure three of the above; time you patted your back.
My hearty congratulations to you, as you are a caring, daring global citizen.
Keep it up please, and improve on it too, day by day.
If you are not able to, please do not dismay.
Instead embrace some of the above mentioned measures, as a habit.
As a timely, personal commitment.
• Time you/we did that, as intelligent individuals inhabiting this global village.
• Time you/we did one/some of those as a personal commitment.
• Time you/we take personal action as well, to adopt a greener lifestyle.
• Time you/we live with care, to share your/our concerns about the environment.
• Time you/we choose to live an earth-friendly lifestyle so that you/we can do a lot every day, single-handedly, to help achieve the pressing, global, goals of:
Being able to reduce global warming.
Being able to end pollution.
Being able to save endangered species.
By making such wise choices, and by deciding how you/we live, consume; natural resources, you/we also get to send a clear message to businesses, politicians and government agencies that value you/us, as a customer(s), constituent(s) and an eco-friendly caring, sharing, daring, citizen(s).
Now, isn't that all too powerful, a power?
The Power of Personal Commitment!
Axee
Alias
Arun
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