I wonder how much of the world will never realize that there's more to life than what they dabble in? I'd say the majority of people concern themselves %60 with how they look and %35 with how they get through each day and the remaining %5 is to contemplate the whole world, if they feel so inclined. We're just very self-absorbed. I'm not trying to say that i'm any different, simply that we don't do anything unless it benefits us somehow and because of this many of us miss out on the beauties of the natural earth and the simplicity of some facets of life. Like, if instead of spending an hour in the morning putting on make-up and doing our hair, we could spend time appreciating the people around us, the world around us, and maybe begin to notice the damage we do by not noticing it more often. Yes, I have a nickname "doomsayer" in my environmental classes, but we really don't know how much longer all of our natural beauty is going to be around us. Think about how long we have to drive to see a good-sized portion of land that's still "intact". I say "intact" because if you can drive to it/through it, it's not quite intact. Every ince of pavement affects the surrounding world, even if it's simply through killing the bugs it was built on, or by changing patterns of water run-off. Who cares though, we've got our mirrors and our clothes and smelly lotions. Who cares about those icky bugs? Those dirty trees that are sometimes nice to drive through...? Yeah. Dunno. People think they're deep when they make observations on the complexity of human interactions. Yes, we're a complex society, but our society is missing something by being so self-involved. Oh my god, it's gonna cost heaps of money to save the planet that's providing us with everything we need. But if we don't have money then we can't afford our luxuries and our cars and such. The world will end because we're incapable of surviving without these things. Or are we?
In other news, I'm gonna ask a doctor today if I should do anything about the low hemoglobin reading that I got when I tried to donate blood last week. Just to be safe.
In yet other news, I'm getting old.
Yeah. I'm tired. And it's time to head up to uni for my lab meeting. Woo.