Not fast enough, far too late, but recycling services have improved vastly over recent years. Paper, cardboard, food, metals, even some plastics. Now a lot is possible, but this relies on consumers correctly sorting materials.
A large proportion of consumer products are electrical. It is impractical to ask owners to dismantle and recycle each part of them, correctly. So what does one do?
https://www.recycleyourelectricals.org.uk
Don’t rush
Live, and let live. Experience as much as you can. You experience nothing properly, if you rush through things. Let yourself experience everything that you go through! OK I am forced to move at a fairly constant ‘wheelchair speed’, but I can say with confidence that I live with ‘my eyes open’.
I start with the above comment, as I am still in disbelief at many, many fellow residents of my town who live in a rush. The greed exists all around the world. People want more, faster. This applies to everyone, everywhere (perhaps I should just accept this as human nature)! People rush down the high-street, and remain aware of nothing, but maybe their mobile phone! The pavement breaks, and they cross the road, refusing to break pace at all. In a wheelchair, I have to locate a suitable place to cross, and then stop and check for oncoming traffic. I often wave hazards past, ahead of me, as I don’t want to be rushed. Meanwhile the person is now 15metres ahead of me. 15metres, or life… Choose?
Yes, many people may consider that they have important things to do, people to meet, places to go, but I urge you all to remain aware of basics! OK you may have survived this time but you have caused large amounts of stress and anger to everyone else.
Hey man, slow downnnn!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57778NQQyi4
When younger, throughout my teenage years and later in my design education, I believed that everything could be explained. Everything was the result of some sort of chain of causes/effects…Right?
… Wrong?
I awoke from my coma in 2007, feeling incredibly wounded, but also alarmingly satisfied that I had been proved correct - ‘Cycling’ had bitten me back. It was due to happen! I had never before felt a negative from a sport/activity that had given me so much. Was this some kind of weird cause/effect? The positive/negative effects of cycling, had finally begun to balance. Cycling is an activity that I will always hold so close. It had given me almost everything. It also almost took everything. Six-month comatose, long-time disabled, almost but not everything. I am still alive!
No, no-one had any answers. Luck had dealt me a set of life-changing cards.
I was broken, I had lost so much. I were now to live without the bike. Oh, and I couldn’t walk.
I was about to start a new-way-of-life, disabled.
Absurdity
https://www.sparknotes.com/philosophy/sisyphus/summary/
'Living with the absurd, Camus suggests, is a matter of facing this fundamental contradiction and maintaining constant awareness of it. Facing the absurd does not entail suicide, but, on the contrary, allows us to live life to its fullest.'
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/the-myth-of-sisyphus
“I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But
Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too
concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither
sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain,
in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's
heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy”
Purpose in life is to live.
The best that anyone can ever achieve is to be happy.
There is no completion.
Keep reaching, never attain.
Change your target/goal, if you feel near completion.
This is because, once you reach completion, then what?…
…Your fate will decide for you! You will have no say or control as to what happens next.
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