Like most people I've seen the footage of the earthquake and tsunami to hit Japan and been appalled by it. This old earth that we are dependent on for life seems to be having more catastrophes than ever (or is it just that they are so well recorded nowadays?).
Without getting off-track I do wonder, although I have no facts to base this on and no scientific or geological background, if all the things we do to it have weakened it's structure. We gouge at it's surface, bleed it of oil, take it's minerals from deep inside and mess up it's environment by cutting down huge swaths of rain forest and changing it's make up for our purposes. Animals seem to have lived in harmony for millions of years with the earth, probably because they don't have the tools or capacity to change things so radically but we do things now that were unthinkable a century or two ago. I know I may sound kooky in my thoughts but I can't see how you can prod and poke something living so much and not have repercussions.
As I was singing a Beatles' song whilst taking my shower this morning I thought that maybe it's not what we take from the world that is important but what we leave behind. Whilst some people have the capacity to leave a huge legacy, the rest of us can do our small but none the less significant things too. As the saying roughly goes, "Better to remember and smile than to think of them and be sad" .
FOOTNOTE:
I must stop eating cheese at night as it seems to turn me into a street philosopher.
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