Close on the heels of the theory of survival of the fittest, sustenance is extremely relevant in any given era. No matter how much effort is put into anything, say pursuing a career for instance, success of a long term career is the fruit of sustainability of that work under the given overall circumstance of the individual. If it creates even a slight lopsided effect on the person, no matter how small a twitch it begins with, is bound to snowball into a big hurdle over time which more often than not does impact the long term prospect of the said career.
We make many, many resolutions at the beginning of the year as well as through the year. But again, unless we plan the rest of our life around that goal, or make ample room for that activity in our daily lives with meticulous planning and execution, the resolution will just die its natural death. A classic case of lack of sustainability.
It’s in the present years as well as in the near future that we as a society have already started to, or shall soon ponder over the many choices that we have made in the past for the sake of convenience such as indiscriminate use of plastics. The awareness of misusing plastic is so much now that that it has finally dawned upon us that plastics are not a sustainable option. Bio degradable options are. But plastics and synthetics aren’t.
The more we get to know the ways of living of our ancestors even not so long ago, maybe a couple of generations back, we realise that they had made their choices on the simplest of things like choice of food (which we now rediscover in the form of various millets, long-forgotten spices and medicinal herbs that have now come to light thanks to so much being researched upon these and brought to the common man’s knowledge) and to the more important decisions (such as designing a house to make the best use of sunlight and rain), based on sustainability of the idea more than anything else.
Somewhere down the line, we just lose track of our priorities for various reason and that is when the quality of our lives get diluted. We have various ideals which we would like to stick by, but when as a society we go wrong, is when it does start affecting a large chunk of the population. We have umpteen examples of this such as indiscriminate marketing and consumption of processed food (so much so that consuming them becomes an integral part of daily lives), use of plastics, chemicals.. the list goes on and on.
It does make sense, now more than ever, to start small, grow in an organic fashion, and most important of all, find happiness in all that what we do.
