Last week I was feeling rather frustrated with some financial dilemmas. Plus, I'm trying to find a new place to live. Add that to a long day of work and you get one exhausted person. I needed to burn off a little steam, so I decided to do a free write. I quickly jotted a few things down on paper and this is what I wrote:
God gave us the animals and the plants. He did not give us houses or tools or even clothes. Ever since Adam and Eve ate the apples we have sought to live outside of our natural means. We wear unnecessary outfits and live in climates we naturally shouldn't live in. We eat more than we need to and create things we don't even need. We consume and we waste things in a search for personal gain. But who pays the price? It is the weak, those who are unable to stop the self indulgent. People who are meant to be our brothers and sisters are homeless. They live on streets with barely enough to survive. The natural world, which can nurture us and which we are meant to care for, withers away. Sometimes to the point of extinction. It is said that we came into the world with nothing and we shall leave it with nothing. Perhaps trying to have nothing between those two moments will help us to attain everything we ever wanted.
