http://greencouple.com/2008/05/07/a-purposeful-cycle/ Learning to live green and live together Wed, 08 Feb 2012 19:27:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 http://greencouple.com/2008/05/07/a-purposeful-cycle/comment-page-1/#comment-467 Jessica Wed, 07 May 2008 22:25:30 +0000 http://greencouple.com/?p=182#comment-467 I don't think we can escape balance in our lives. As much as we try to overcome it, we can only exist within ecosystems. We have created a false ecosystem based on consumerism, but it is still an ecosystem, with cycles and checks and balances that we cannot escape. We work, work, work so we can buy, buy, buy and this lifestyle makes us sick. Our health care system is set up not to work in order to control the population somewhat, because if we can't support too many of us consuming at this level, and theres not enough jobs for everyone. Its not as pretty a balance as what you describe on that farm, but its a balance. Its an ecosystem, thriving and functioning despite us, directing us in all of our actions. I'd rather live in a more natural balance, myself, like what you describe on the farm, but I, like many Americans, am just not willing to give up some things. I struggle not because I'm trying to go back to a natural balance like I see in the mountains when I go hiking, but because I am trying to create a healthier, more fufilling balance, like the ones your friends struggle to create on their farms. I don't like this system thats set up to make me work, take my money, then kill me. Thats an ugly balance. I don’t think we can escape balance in our lives. As much as we try to overcome it, we can only exist within ecosystems. We have created a false ecosystem based on consumerism, but it is still an ecosystem, with cycles and checks and balances that we cannot escape. We work, work, work so we can buy, buy, buy and this lifestyle makes us sick. Our health care system is set up not to work in order to control the population somewhat, because if we can’t support too many of us consuming at this level, and theres not enough jobs for everyone. Its not as pretty a balance as what you describe on that farm, but its a balance. Its an ecosystem, thriving and functioning despite us, directing us in all of our actions.
I’d rather live in a more natural balance, myself, like what you describe on the farm, but I, like many Americans, am just not willing to give up some things. I struggle not because I’m trying to go back to a natural balance like I see in the mountains when I go hiking, but because I am trying to create a healthier, more fufilling balance, like the ones your friends struggle to create on their farms.
I don’t like this system thats set up to make me work, take my money, then kill me. Thats an ugly balance.

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