So I suppose I can add a little to yesterday’s post. I’ll choose the Peace Corps comment today.
I never cared about the environment. I used to litter it up with the rest of them. Something changed me while I was in Florida though. I’m proud to say I spent my lunch break on Earth Day cleaning trash off the beach. And I wish I had only stayed long enough to experience Hands Across the Sands. Look it up. It’s amazing.
When I came back to Arkansas, I kept that idea in my head and it has just blossomed. My goal now is to save the world. Or at least one part of it. I want to make a difference. I want to be remembered. I want to be that person years from now, who people will see and think back and say, “Wow, she has come a long way!” I want to inspire people. I want to affect peoples minds and hearts the way that my inspiration and hero, Jason Mraz, has affected mine. It’s so wonderful to me that someone can be so passionate about the environment. He does things that may not even make a difference in his lifetime. But he cares so deeply for the generations below us, that he does it anyways. I aspire to be more like him.
I feel like I have finally found my calling and would love to become an environmentalist. But you would be surprised how hard that is in “The Natural State”. With a name like that, you would think everyone here would be encouraged to preserve our beautiful land. But I see more trash on the sides of the roads, and more old trucks with black exhaust, and more factories than I ever saw while I was in Florida. People here are very closed minded. The older adults that I’ve spoken to about going green, even slightly, respond with things such as, “that’s your generation’s problem, not mine.” And so because they don’t care, their kids don’t care, and their kids kids don’t care. I want to make an impact on Arkansas, I just haven’t figured out how to do it yet. But I feel like I should become more well rounded in the whole subject before I take on a state alone. Which is where the Peace Corps comes in to play. I feel like I need something like this, to learn more about the way other people live, how they are living a sustainable life and how I can change my own life her in the US where supplies are vast and easily within my reach. The Peace Corps idea scares me a lot though! That’s a big leap. But I don’t know how to ease into it though. So I have also thought, when the time is right and the money is right, to quit my job and just travel. There is a show called World of Jenks (and I may have that wrong) where a guy travels and takes on jobs with other people, spending a few days in their shoes, just to learn more about the crazy and different lifestyles people have. I just saw it for the first time the other day and it really put this crazy thought into my head. Of course I would be alone and wouldn’t have a camera crew linked to a huge network following me while I live and work with people I do not know. But maybe that’s the whole point of it all, just the risk, like, this person could be a serial killer, or they could be that one person who saves my life. I’m not fully sure where I want to be but I have some time and some things holding me back from making a decision right now, so I have plenty of time to think on it. As for now, I’m just working with Green Peace as a lead activist in my community to make a small difference (which is a lot harder than I thought it would be) and enjoying my new discovery of the beauty of Arkansas.
I welcome any ideas on where to go and what to do, here or out there.
Namaste,
K
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