Our kids want to have fun, too!
Where?
Right here on our blue old motherly planet that has been shaking her head lately (even in our backyard!) why we do not (for god sake) finally decide to show her our eternal love! She has been hosting us for some time and ever since we started walking on two, about a million years ago, she does everything possible to hint us how we can make ourselves comfortable in her home. And we did! ! She offered us the most delicious food, the most refreshing water to quench our thirst with, the sweetest honey and rich creamy milk, the most beautiful flowers to pick….She even inspired us to paint and sing and ride horses!
Only we decide we know better than her, the old wrinkly wise but a bit old fashioned host, and someone clever has an idea to start sticking a nose in her business. Oh, says the instigator, we truly cannot deal with seeds in the grapes and melons. And also, we like strawberries, this smart one continues, really big. Also, wouldn’t you like to choose what color of eyes your child will have!?
And we, in nature happy followers, follow that smart if a bit cocky, instigator. We like his plans. Listen to me, he would say, she is stuck in her own outdated world, he proclaims (or was it she?), let outsmart her.
And in this mob mentality – we did. We outsmarted her. We grew chicken faster than she could ever make them grow. We got more milk from her cow than she could ever imagine. ( That cow did not even have to be dragged to rich heavenly pastures. What about that!) We succeeded. We got it all and we were looking at her from a corner of our eye what she thinks!
She was quiet for awfully long time. Not very typical for our host. Some of her guests did not like that silence since all of these millenia she was on our side making her views known. She took us through some trials, in the past, but only to show more love and offer more of her riches. She never became reticent for such a long time.
Well, we forgot about her silence and truly about her, and we started behaving as if she did not exist. We were breaking all of her rules she so modestly asked us to follow. They are reasonable, she would whisper through winds, they all aim at helping you to be happy.
What does she know what makes us happy! Some of us would think.
Well, you know the rest of this story.
She is not mad, but sad. She is not judgmental, but disappointed. She is not pointing, only shaking her head. She observes that we dismissed a long time ago what a guest must do above all: Be grateful.
This is what we should do: We must catch her eternal whisper again. It will give us the primeval hints…
I know that some have been already whispered to. Once we all hear – the great dance may start again. Only with the right steps this time. And I can’t wait.
Platt College celebrates Earth Day on April 22, 2010!
