Written by Vincent Suarez
Sometimes you sit for a while, you stop everything you do and then look at the world around you. You then realise the natural beauty that surrounds you. You then remember the hustling of the wind through the trees, the soft touch of grass in between your toes, the chirping of birds and the sounds of thousand wings. It captivates you and you ask yourself, how could it be that I missed all this? How could I have forgotten all this beauty around me?
Today, beauty has passed from what is natural to what is made. Mankind has learned the craft of creating beauty and it has lead to forgetting the environment. The word beauty is a term used to describe a house, the way a person looks, a certain emotion, a city or even a car. We must remember that in the past it has been used to describe the art created by nature, the structure and movement of a ray of light, and the way the environment interacts with the life that lives inside it. Attraction to beauty has been re-directed and the decay of this action has seen its influence on the world. We now have a society that cares so little for the environment. We have the abuse of fossil fuels which has had an impact on the world itself. Global warming was once an issue dismissed by leading governments and scientists, and has taken such a terrible form that cities are expected to ’disappear’ under water in as little as 50 years time.
This is where we stop and say, let’s make a change. Often this concept is hard to understand because people normally ask themselves, ‘what can one person do to save the world?’ This is a question that has been answered by history many times before. There was a gentle man from India who wanted to raise the level of consciousness without raising his voice (Ghandi), there was a woman who travelled the world giving hope to those who had none (Mother Theresa), and a young Chinese student who stood in front of three tanks with nothing more than his shopping bags, asking the militants to leave his city (Tank Man).
The concept of the difference one person can make is a proven fact, it was simply forgotten. A change can be made to protect the environment, and capacity can be built for the attraction to natural beauty. We simply have to try, and believe that every little thing counts.
