Thought Process

Early adulthood we chase after our dreams, careers, family and a home, insuring a balance somewhat in keeping ones head above water financially speaking.

Yet when our children are young should we not be spending much more time with expanding their thinking into sustainable living and lifestyle twenty years from now, along with the basics of survival as we know it.

When outdoors watching the Weaver birds preparing for new next season, my mind veered to the thought that as humans we tend to live in a season lingering longer perhaps than we should.

Teaching the next generation is normally watching parents closely, learning by example. Being an Accountant, Doctor, Engineer does not lean toward children learning a love of what you find exhilarating as a career path.

Exposing development at an early age opening thought processes, I am not referring to computers or TV. More outings where learning first hand from people in a variety of professions touching on geology, meteorology, oceanography and astronomy, too often parents are wrapped up in their careers, sometimes topics briefly touched on during schooling years.

Watching the weavers practice, learning knots to kick-start the nest building, made "perfect by practice" I am sure they watched adults from young to learn. Once the elementary idea is sown, computers, microscopes all the tools used will follow naturally.

A brief thought watching the birds, how much do we squander our lives away perhaps never entering into what may have brought about more awareness of what is available had the opportunity been offered to one when young. Planting seeds to grow a future not worrying about today but about tomorrow with rational thinking.

Is time being wasted chasing ideas flouted in modern society of not farming due to green house gas from agriculture processes or cows farting. Not using energy we have used for millennia, are we chasing pipe dreams to make a few rich, is the thought process founded.

We all have certain basic requirements in food, water, shelter, education supplied in a variety of ways many think are now outdated, we have survived thus far, how much further are we as a species going to be able to survive sustainable living?