I had to re-read this today. Wondering why it brought me to tears in a public place. It was this segue(?) you made:
“It occurs to me that i might have to end this by announcing the probable extinction of the saola in Vietnam.
Who can I tell? What if I just have to get on the plane thinking that?
What film will I watch?”
That disconnection we all make every day from knowing everything we seem to do is causing harm to this beautiful planet and all the non-human life yet we all have to go back to work, go back to the supermarket to buy our plastic wrapped groceries, go back to our daily lives.
I guess that's the thought that did it for me while writing it also...
..and the thing is, as far as I can tell, I will get on that plane and I will probably think about this before I turn on the TV... and then I will wait about 30 seconds and then I will turn it on anyway because how would it help not to?
...I can think of some pretty good answers to that question actually. But just sitting there feeling stuff that you can't seem to do anything about and with no end in sight is really hard and thankless work.
Damn you. Sitting waiting for my car to be serviced with tears in my eyes.
I had to re-read this today. Wondering why it brought me to tears in a public place. It was this segue(?) you made:
“It occurs to me that i might have to end this by announcing the probable extinction of the saola in Vietnam.
Who can I tell? What if I just have to get on the plane thinking that?
What film will I watch?”
That disconnection we all make every day from knowing everything we seem to do is causing harm to this beautiful planet and all the non-human life yet we all have to go back to work, go back to the supermarket to buy our plastic wrapped groceries, go back to our daily lives.
I guess that's the thought that did it for me while writing it also...
..and the thing is, as far as I can tell, I will get on that plane and I will probably think about this before I turn on the TV... and then I will wait about 30 seconds and then I will turn it on anyway because how would it help not to?
...I can think of some pretty good answers to that question actually. But just sitting there feeling stuff that you can't seem to do anything about and with no end in sight is really hard and thankless work.