I love living a green lifestyle. I love when I pull out my reusable bags at the grocery store. I love seeing the plants in my apartment grow from seed to plant in what seems like a blink of eye. I love buying fresh, locally grown food. I love donating old things instead of just tossing them in a landfill. I love when my recycling is bigger than my trash because it means I am choosing better products to fill my life with.
Now that sounds like a whole lot of perfect doesn't it? It does to me. Am I perfect all the time? No. I forget my bags at the store a lot. Who thinks of bringing them when going to home goods stores, or the comic book store? I always forget. I don't have a compost pile because I live in an apartment and just isn't accessible to me. Could I make it so? Yes, will I? Probably not. I still buy water bottles and most of the time my recycling is full of them instead of using the filtered water we have in our fridge. My point is I am trying but I am still making a lot of mistakes. I would love a small house in the middle of this vast land filled with animals and crops and just wild land that I can explore. Am I ready for it? No. I want to be fully self sustaining and have no garbage output. I am a long way off from that but I am trying.
Life is about trying and making mistakes. Today while I looked at a plant covered in aphids because I forgot to pay close enough attention to it made me realize this. I felt its tug saying I need attention for a while, but ignored it because of other life things. Now I have it sitting in the rain hoping it heals. I really hope it does. But if it doesn't it is a lesson learned the hard way again.
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