Fare Well or Farewell

 While we are all thinking about where the next penny is coming from, there is a huge "elephant under the carpet" that is far more worthy of deeper thought. Watching a David Attenborough program citing reasons why we must take immediate steps to preserve life on earth over finding ways to buy that better house, car or fashion; or perhaps, as most people, merely ways  to survive another fifty earth years. The program, a film showing what's happening to our planet in natural terms, made me understand vividly how precious this big blue marble we live on, is not a permanent arrangement. Our human existence, regardless of hubris, is temporary. Survival depends upon how we use our brains and disappearing resources to continue in spite of the natural and unnatural advances of our precious planet toward it's end. Time doesn't stop and while we ignore it, things happen all over the world that take up our global energy and resources to feed our human  instinct to do better and be better and find better. We want to be smart and rich and beautiful and live forever. There is a strange deliberate ignorance going on in which all the truths of the ticking clock of earth's time, are pushed aside. But. It's not all hopeless and while we are battling pandemics, political greed and warrings here and there, the real battle is being aware that that our great, great, great grandchildren may not be able to live to enjoy what we have lived to enjoy. Picking up the newspapers whether on line or on paper (dead trees), almost all of it is social whining and crime and tragedy and political in-fighting but there is very little about the fish and corals of the sea dying off, the glacial ice melting away, the rainforests disappearing at alarming rates and the global warming caused by our greed and economic selfishness. Of course, we can't go about hanging our heads in grief constantly and the vast majority haven't the time for that anyway, but there are small things that we can do to help. First we have to listen, to pay serious attention to the realities. Second we have to find some way of doing our part, however small. None of us, not one single person is going to live much beyond the maximum of approximately one hundred years, if we get that far, but we want them to be happy years and see that our families and everyone else's  will continue to be. The way we are going, that's not going to happen and it's not that far off.  When I  read the pettiness of present societies and their obsession with things that are gone and past and that money and media attention is not going to bring it back and perhaps shouldn't, I think why aren't we putting our joint human efforts behind the things that really matter? What really matters is human continuance. Nature is our god. Happiness rules. It is the one element that everyone needs and it costs nothing because most of it comes from nature. Good old pure Mother Nature as we call it, nothing else. The waters, plant life, our fellow earth inhabitants, the animals; they should not be reduced to money. These natural things are our riches. If we don't want to say farewell to them as rapidly as is actually happening this very day, we have to do something and each one of us can find a way. Do it.