Show Love the Way We Mean It

We say "I love you" to people we love (please exclude yourself if you are not into this kind of direct expression). I think love is very mysterious. I mean how can you define the love you have towards the person you are referring to? You can't right? So how did you show your love, besides saying "I love you"? You care (and you show it), you pay attention (and you show it), you listen, you accept the person the way he/she is. Do you do harm or hurt the person you love? Yes, but not intentionally I believe. So what did you usually do when you realized you have done something bad to the person you love? Do you apologize and remind yourself not to repeat the same mistake again?

That's what I am saying - let's put the picture we see from the above paragraph onto EARTH instead of a person.

It got me thinking: how many of us really cherish the bond between human beings and mother earth? And how many of us really show gratitude for the unselfishly given resources that mother earth has given us and concern about the damage we are creating onto her everyday?

It is a habit, I believe, just like how we build we way of showing our love towards our kids, parents, friends, neighbors, and even people cried for help from the poverty places. We first have our purest compassion in our heart then bring it forward and give it out to others.

We can do it for people and animal so why can't we do it for earth?

How can we show love to earth? Do less harm (as much as you can) is the very only thing. Of course you can do more constructive things such as planting more trees but creating less sabotage is good enough - less power wastage (remember EARTH HOUR?) and less contamination (water, air, solid waste).

Just remember: what you are enjoying today isn't fully your own earning. They come from the utilization of resources (from this planet called earth, of course). You are just paying for the creation made out of these resources. So be thankful for the abundance of resources and show your appreciation by working together with the source.

Never underestimate your influence, because a little goes a long way..........

Happy Birthday, Earth, on your 4.54billion(source: wikipedia) one's and many more greener, cleaner and more beautiful years to come...