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My travels take me all over the United States. I get to shake hands with titles ranging from CEO to Vice President, to line worker. I get the ability to travel to cities like LA, Philadelphia, New Orleans, and many more. As I travel I see the increased suburbanization of our great county. As I realize we are in a much different time today then generations ago. I can't lie that it is depressing to see us continue to tear down forests, buy up farms to develop, justifying all this by putting a catchy name to the new road/development such as "deer pass". Unfortunately it was a deer pass or path until we came along and made it our path.
I am not pointing blame by writing this but I am asking people do we need to reconsider our lifestyle? Are we just going to have generation after generation move further out, build new developments and destroy further more wildlife habitat? Are we going to continue to take small farming towns, load them with people and change the rules/laws in those towns because now the population has increased ten fold? Does every town need to have all the franchise type stores, are we passed shopping at a smaller grocery stores, hardware stores, shoe stores, etc?
I am lucky to be able to shake a CEOs hand one day and be in southern Ohio driving a dirt road to the middle of nowhere the next. I find more peace and satisfaction in the latter then words can describe.
I do not know the best answers to some of the questions I have asked. However, I do believe it is thought provoking and worthy of noting. I am far from exempt from much of what I described above and possibly that's why it is on my mind in the first place.
If your reading this and not sure what I am taking about. If you can see a forest get torn down and you don't feel a thing, go find nature. Find what you can enjoy that doesn't involve a cellphone, a Starbucks and a wifi signal. Drive a backroad, watch the farmers working their fields, don't be in hurry, let people know your happy to see them, sit down with your grandparents and listen to their stories, talk to a stranger, work with your hands outside, get dirty, be thankful.
I hope by reading this people will take a day to disconnect, slow down, and connect with nature. As a generation we are in control of our future and will set the tone of the lifestyles for future generations to come.
Thank you for reading!
I am not pointing blame by writing this but I am asking people do we need to reconsider our lifestyle? Are we just going to have generation after generation move further out, build new developments and destroy further more wildlife habitat? Are we going to continue to take small farming towns, load them with people and change the rules/laws in those towns because now the population has increased ten fold? Does every town need to have all the franchise type stores, are we passed shopping at a smaller grocery stores, hardware stores, shoe stores, etc?
I am lucky to be able to shake a CEOs hand one day and be in southern Ohio driving a dirt road to the middle of nowhere the next. I find more peace and satisfaction in the latter then words can describe.
I do not know the best answers to some of the questions I have asked. However, I do believe it is thought provoking and worthy of noting. I am far from exempt from much of what I described above and possibly that's why it is on my mind in the first place.
If your reading this and not sure what I am taking about. If you can see a forest get torn down and you don't feel a thing, go find nature. Find what you can enjoy that doesn't involve a cellphone, a Starbucks and a wifi signal. Drive a backroad, watch the farmers working their fields, don't be in hurry, let people know your happy to see them, sit down with your grandparents and listen to their stories, talk to a stranger, work with your hands outside, get dirty, be thankful.
I hope by reading this people will take a day to disconnect, slow down, and connect with nature. As a generation we are in control of our future and will set the tone of the lifestyles for future generations to come.
Thank you for reading!
