Yesterday I walked along my coastal path, how I had missed being there, seeing and hearing the waves. It was a cold day even though the sun was shining. I stopped to listen to the sound of the waves as they kissed the shore. It was good to be alive. There is indeed something worthy of being aware of our fragility.
I came home feeling that it was so silly of me to be complaining that I cannot at present run, I can at least still walk, and my trainers are cleaned and dry and ready for the day when I will once again slip them on. You would really think that after all I have lived through over the many years I would have by now learned patience.
The wonder of my day was only tarnished slightly by two things I learned later in the day.
I learned that we have now become so obsessed with celebrity that more and more young people are committing suicide, or attempting to, because they are not famous or a celebrity. The biggest selling magazines and books are those dealing with the lives of celebrities, even if their own claim to fame was that they appeared on a reality television show. I found that so sad that I wanted to scream, "You are of worth because you are You, not because you want to be somebody else."
Later I watched a programme about the selling of bottled water, and the effort that companies put into making their water a market leader. How they have convinced us that we need something that in reality we could well live without, especially here in Scotland where we have water in abundance. As I walk I frequently drink from springs and rivers and I have never tasted water from a plastic bottle that could taste so beautiful. Yet we are importing water in plastic bottles from USA and the continent.
Meanwhile, children are dying for the lack of water in two thirds of the world.
I will now get off my pulpit and remember again the joy of my walk, and the sound of the sea.
On my other blog I will share some thoughts on an artwork painted after such a walk and the words I wrote yesterday at the end of my walk. At One With Creation
Good Morning Ralph, today will be a great day! and I am so happy you are living these words and not just reading them. Celebrities are not even Happy People, a strange desire, for sure. Now, about American bottled water, you are absolutely right, of course, but I think that is all we make now, nothing left for this once great country to export!
ReplyDeleteI remember years ago, we all laughed at bottled water, saying it was ridiculous to pay for water in a bottle.
ReplyDeleteRight now on your blog I'm reading an ad for bottled water. Marketing seems to be ingrained, does it not?