oh hell...this isnt dread related

Sorry this has nothing to do with dreads....but uh...I just need a spot to vent for a second......I just walked over to the local supermarket cuz I just realized that I havnt eaten anything since 11 am, and while strolling down the aisles looking for something that looked yummish...I suddenly felt this overwhelming feeling of grief and couldnt help but to cry. I was standing in the frozen food aisle looking down an endless aisle of food, while surrounded by aisles and aisles of more food. There is sooooo much fucking food in this country of ours, that goes to waste. Meanwhile orphans in Uganda, Tibet, you name it are dying of starvation. How have we let things get to this? WE are such a gluttonous consumer nation. It sickens me and anchors my heart to my toes....I ended up leaving without buying anything...cuz who the fuck am I to buy something when once again there is so much suffering and people without. As I was walking back home, I took notice to a tree by the road, that I have walked by many times but never really saw. It spoke to me. There it was, growing tall and strong yet still. There is so much wisdom in stillness. Each movement the tree made was governed by the wind yet the tree didnt seem to mind, for it knows something I have yet to learn. My heart is big...too big for my chest most times. It gives me elation and at times leaves me feeling like a pool of shattered glass reaching and reflecting upward with little direction on how to remain in tact and whole. I dont know what this all means.....hopefully with time though I too will learn to remain composed and still with wisdom, compasison, and a balanced heart. I have tree envy! I wanna be like the trees! Geesh......if your still reading this...you rock. and I am now done ranting. teehee. =]

 

wow, what an experience. I have something to say, but I'm not sure what it is. heh, maybe it will come to me tonight.

Me thinks you should take a close look at yourself and the world around you...yeah, I will have some more to say tomorrow.

Sorry I could be more help. -.-

 

To the OP....
You are just opening your eyes to how things have been for a long time now, a completely commercialistic society and the byproduct of its its wastful,pathetic existence....

 

You really remind me of a convo my friends i were having the other night its a shame how wastfull as a nation we are. I too need to learn from the tree there is a great lesson to be learned there thankyou

 

http://www.foodnotbombs.net/

 

I liked reading this mandy <3 I had a similar experience the othe day, in the shops and walking past the newspapers caught my eye, 'posh spice with 80K Birkin bag' I literally let out a yelp. The recession is so bad here for one where we can barely pay our gas bills and she is parading around with a tacky 80grand bag! Absolutley vile, my mum is just back from working over in India and is so affected by what she saw over there, she saw babies of 2 months being looked after by their brother-only 2/3. On the street in the cold without a nappy or clothes. The 3 year old didn't know what to do, could you imagine your daughter looking after a lil baby? It is horrendous, the world is upside down. That one bag that she will wear what, maybe 2/3 times and then bury in the back of her oversize closet could have schooled hundreds of children in Africa, giving thousands food for a year. How can she sleep at night? I can't wait to go travelling and seeing the world, just giving some love.

 

Awww mandy know what you mean though. I hate wasting food. I despise restaurants for throwing away whole meals because they are slightly burnt. When I was little I always wanted a restaurant and to give my left over food to staff and the homeless. Last week I threw a whole frozen bag of home fries away. I felt so guilty because by the year 2020 there will be a massive food shortage in the world. There's too many people.

 

theres too many selfish people

 

Not that I am not concerned with what is going on around the globe...but I am more sickened by how the US treats thier own. I live near downtown Roanoke....very close to where the mission is. You see all these poor homeless folks walking around. I found out that they wake them out at 5 am..boot em' out and leave them to walk around Roanoke aimlessly in the cold til the doors open up again at night. What is with that? Just what is the US doing to help these folks???? The mission is run by private donations.....just makes me sick!!!! Where are their bailouts? How easy it is for people to ignore what is going on in their own backyards!

 

......and to add.....the welfare system totally sucks. How is that my neighbors can have subsidized rent, food stamps, government checks...and they have nicer cars in thier drive way than me and my hubby who are both working 50-60 hours a week to pay the bills. Want an end to over population...put a regulation on all these welfare moms spitting out babies like Pez to get a bigger ADC check....just my opinion.

 

yep, I agree with everything you all have said. Thanks for the FNB link. Ive heard of them before and have wanted to contribute my time but just havnt had the time. However, after my experience, I feel like it is perhaps a calling. I need to make time, and do what I can to not only help but to fight the disgusting system we have in place. Our world is completely flipped upside down and Ive always known this. I guess, it was just an awakening to get off my ass and finally do something about it!
To Callie: I agree the systems we have in place in our own frontyards is extremely corrupt. AS a single mom I was on welfare for the first year of my daughters life. I used the systems aide to help me get on my feet and become an active contributor to society. I was happy to finally get off welfare, and have been doing great things since. So on one hand, I see the importance of the welfare system, as without it, Id be a poor miserable wreck, and my daughter would suffer the most. However, it is in dire need of reform. We need a way to weed out the smucks and give aide to only those who are serious about using it right. When I was on it, so many times while sitting in the welfare office Id hear jackasses bragging about how they milk the system and how they just sit around on their fat asses all day smoking herb and waiting for their next check. Its sickening. Anywho..........Im goin to the FNB food distrubution this sunday. WE all have to start somewheres!

 

... so you didnt eat food because we have alot of it, when someone somewhere doesnt??? little weird (if you didnt know, that isnt going to help them). If you feel bad for them you should feel bad for wildlife. They are animals, as humans are. Who do you think has it worse?

 

no, there is just to many people. Ive realized that alot recently. Think of pollution. There are Hundreds of millions of people in the US alone, and think of all of the people who drive their cars EVERYDAY. and how much food they eat EVERYDAY. and how much garbage and waste they produce EVERYDAY. Way to much.

 

I've been thinking about this alot. It's the Civilised world's fault. The comercial capitalist world's fault. They have been pushing comercialism onto these 'developing countries' for ages. Infact- I disagree with the term 'developing countries'. No one needs to be labeled. In tribes they have/had skills to catch their own food, look after themselves with their own medicine. The comercial pressure has forced most of Africa and 'poverty sticken' places to live in corregated metal housing, not the sustainable mud/tree huts they and their ancestors used to. The western world has GIVEN them food, out of pity that they live in such dyre circumstances... Which I again disagree with. These gifts of food has meant that over generations these tribes and bushmen have lost the skills their ancestors taught them on how to feed themseves etc- only to then be reliant on the food we give them. THAT'S WHY they are starving!!! I think the tribes hidden away in the forests of brazil or the African bush are inspirational. They are still going. They have not been touched by this cancer. I'd love to live there. Like them. Thats why I want to learn Those survival skills. Not the Ray Mears hiking shit, proper tribal skills. That's my dream.

Funnily enough, without all this western medicine those tribes live for bloody ages. They only die of age. They don't get cancer, because they have no pollution or man made shite going into their systems to create such a result.

So.. xD I blame capitalism. Well.. I blame the "modern" human. The ones who started farming, the ones who started the selfish idea of money. Bastards.

I'd love to live with a tribe Separate myself from... 'This' world.

I think a house in somerset or dover witha few acres should do me fine till then though... *oohh* can't wait to be able to move down to the coast!! It's so free!! Whoops off topic there xD

Btw, Anyone who managed to finish my essay there, would you say that's libertarian communism? My views? I don't really get politics.. I don't really like politics.. (people say I'm stupid for saying that but actually I don't think its nessacary.. Well I dunno, but I'm refusing to vote because I don't think there should be a government at all ^^ or maybe something like Karl Marx was thinking, community based governments not national ones ^^)

Meh

 

exactly, i have thought the very same. if there was some fucked up stuff happening in the USA or where ever, and basically anything goes wrong people would basically DIE. they dont know how to get food from the wild. seriously, people today are lazy. we drive to the store, and get food that is prepared for us. you dont have to do any work to even get it, or survive. but if for some reason grocery stores were cut off. people would be screwed. i think the way we live now, will be the end of humans. no survival of the fittest or what ever, so all the unwanted traits get passed down and we dont evolve.

 

Exactly And I wanna get away from that, live in the middle of nowhere with a veg patch and somewhere I can fish oohh I wanna learn how to fish and cook em and stuff... <3 camping ^^ Would love to do it properly, go only with an axe some matches and a ground sheet and clothes n stuff, make a bivvy and go fishing AWESOME

 

Sums it up. There's just too many people needing to be fed and because of the food shortage in 10-15 years I and my husband have decided that we aren't having children. I think your post is takes the middle ground on political stances. I love politics

 

yeah, and those people are selfish for doing that.. theres people who live opposite me, who work at the shop at the top of my road (maybe 150 metres away?) and they drive. they drive there in the morn, they drive home at night. it takes 2 minutes to walk there. if those people walked,, theyd benefit themselves, healthwise, and the planet pollution-wise.

people eat lots of food cause its there. its convenient. if we suddenly reverted to a society where we had to hunter/gather, i think itd do the world of good. people would get off there fat arses and do something, maybe become better people, share n share alike and all that.

i honestly believe that if you dont need a car,, dont have one. yeah, ok, some people have genuine reasons for needing a car, but if you can walk, or oh my god, get on a bus, then why not do that?


but aside from all that (i could go on all day), i totally see your point about the garbage/waste situation. its horrible. our household, i like to think, are quite good. we could be better, but we're alright. we recycle alot, we got compost bins, we collect umpteen billion litres of rainwater, we grow lots of fruit & veg..

gahh. rant. iggy:

 

can i come? ill let you kill the fish though, i couldnt do that.

 

that just wouldnt work though. if everyone tried to get their own food from the wild wall wild life would be gone in like a month. but really, not eating the food we already have isnt going to help starving people in anyway. its not like were going to ship our left over food to them... and grocery stores sell most of their food, i doubt they over stock it becuase then they would be loosing money. but yeah. people should walk or ride a bike.