Environmental Concern

(This post is way too late …i failed to update this blog for almost a year …now, i come to my senses and start posting again ) 

February 23, 2009

I was on my way home, a usual Monday afternoon after work, but this particular afternoon I was made to think of things that is happening around me. There have been multiple experiences that I had when riding a jeepney, yet I just surpassed these situations without totally submerging the lessons and warnings that it gave. This afternoon marks a difference.

                I was hurrying to get a seat on a jeepney (or else I’ll stay long waiting for my chance to have one), people are chasing jeepneys in areas that are not allowed to load passengers, obviously they want to get home early coz every single second counts. This is a typical scenario every afternoon. There I found a seat beside a woman drinking soda, maybe she’s so thirsty coz she sipped the soda in just one gulp. I paid less attention to this woman, for there are lot other personal things I need to think of, then I don’t know what exactly my reaction when I saw that woman threw her emptied plastic soda just right beside my shoulder to the open road. I stared at her, though maybe she didn’t notice it, I want to jerk at her and remind her that she is to spare the surroundings from dirt and not add on it. Make her realized that what she had done could create a big impact to the environment that we are trying so hard to save. I want to bring her wits to work, and start practicing to think of living someday on a green earth. Then I stop, why did I react that much? could I actually do that to her? to reprimand? could i? I was torn I didn’t know what to do, and I didn’t know what makes me think that way. Why I am being so concern this time? Why should I care to correct things that I know will not happened if they themselves will not do anything.  I guess the only thing that i can do and help is to constantly remind myself not to be like the woman that i happened to sit beside a jeepney.