my thoughts on the planet this week

Influence, it can be a wonderful thing as well as sometimes being a terrible thing. But influence when wonderful is truly wonderful and almost animated with life and giving enormous surprise. I try to market my blog as much as possible in an effort to try and create awareness, I let those around me know of my blog and hope to influence as many as I can in hopefully a good and positive way, hoping to create some benefit.

Well, I visited my mum over the easter weekend and I was surprised to see that in her spring clean she had purchased an environmentally friendly cleaner. I read the label, it was biodegradable and proudly displaying in bright letters, it did not contain the nasties that can be found in bleach. My mum had already implemented small changes like recycling food packaging and re-using plastic bags or purchasing a more durable carrier bag that can be used time and time again. 

I never really thought that change could be so contagious. Some peoples attitudes or habits you can’t change but the good news is there are many that look for a positive effect of our lives on the planet and for future generations to come. Someone else I know also began to use a more durable re-usable carrier bag. I am yet to convince my mum of using Ecover for washing up liquid, but we are seeing progress. This progress also applies to myself and from this changing of habits I am by no means excluded, I too, learn all the time. I learn things about the environment, every day products we use, their effects and our effect on climate and the environment that surrounds us. My own personal effect is one that I am happy to announce and share with you all, as I hope you too will start a happy chain, with what you learn, you pass it on and so it becomes a mass operation of co-ordination towards seeing things differently as well as doing things differently.

Please have a read of my other posts in relation to water saving, energy saving, environmentally friendly products and so on. I would also like for those of you with experiences of your happy chain to leave a post or comment about how it went, is going or is not so going. I try to influence people but never really try to oppose their views or habits if it something they really do not want to change, I try and respect their decisions if they are of opposing attitudes and move to those who are willing and work with those who do want to change. Sometimes you can have an almost subliminal effect and it is interesting just how much some people do actually listen.

I have an extremely bad habit I am afraid to say and that is swearing too much. I like to think that I am a nice and good person only with good intentions, the swearing, I am sure sometimes gives the wrong impression of me, but I do get frustrated with life, with the minotiny, with the ignorance, with the bad, with wars, with humanities priorities, with materialism, with my own and others ignorance, with all the things that maybe my mind just won’t let rest and something tells me that I need to express these matters of my own concern and worries. I worry about the world, I worry about the future, I worry that we as people won’t do enough. If you have read this far, I hope you will visit the site again checking for new posts and may browse my other posts.

With regards to influence, if I have influenced you enough for you to make changes or show your support, whether it be for my blog, for envirnmental products, for a charity or other good cause, deed, to raise awareness on any topic or an act of human kindness, then try doing the influencing yourself, people do and will listen.

Try it, and I am going to try to cut out my swearing, which is something I tend to do in every day life and as of yet have not published a single profanity on my blog. As I said, sometimes this existence brings a lot of thought and a lot of responsibilty as well as all the previous mentioned niggles that I have with the basics of our every day life and existence.