I have spent the last week at my parents farm, it has been so peaceful and good for the mind and soul. I have to admit I am not ready to go back to the city life, I wish I could stay here forever. When I come to the farm my life slows down and I get a glimspe of my childhood, the peace and quiet. I have truly observed the meaning of "less is more". I have not ate out all week and even my soda consumption has decreased, along with fuel consumption. I do not drive as much when I am at my parents.
Yesterday I went to Hennessey with my mom and had to stop and get fuel. I got out the car and was like how do I work this thing. It was the old version of a gas pump, I was like mom you going in to pay for the gas. She was like no just pump we pay later. You do not get this in Houston, LOL. This trip I do feel like I have an excess of stuff that I need to get rid of, this excess stuff is causing stress and a decrease in my quality of life. I need to change my ways can not study environmental and social sustainability and not live it. So I am headed back to Houston only because I have an interview. I am going back changed realizing that stuff does not and has not improved my quality of life. I have also learned that the last few years I have been searching for a job that pays what I used to make and not for a job that I will enjoy and be able to do what I love to do. Maybe that is the reason I am still searching, maybe that is the lesson to be learned.
An idea that I have been pondering on is instead of creating technology to create sustainability maybe its more intrinsic. Creating a better environment comes from within, the soul/spirituality of man and not from a product. I think I have a topic to write about.
Reflection
Okay so I finally got a response from Dodge I can only talk about him in reference to school, he works for a government entity and some of the things he told me is confidential. So Dodge is looking for work also, had an interview yesterday. He said it went well. I am glad. Dodge has became a good friend of mine, which I would have never thought. Another example of never change a book by its cover.
I remember the first residency one of my instructor said that this would be a journey to enjoy the good and the bad. I thought he was joking, he wasn't this has been a journey of good and bad, a journey of understanding who I am and what I am suppose to be doing on this earth. I am so so glad that I did not stop, if I had stopped I would have missed this wonderful person that I am becoming, I would have missed all the wondering things that I have been exposed to, I would have missed the oppurtunity to become the greatest that I can be. This was all because of many conversations that I had with people, angles that God sent down to share a wise thought, story of saying with me. I will always be greatful for these people, because they are a part of my journey. Now I refuse to stop becuase like my dad said I do not know what is around the corner, I do not know what person I will become and I am enjoying who I am becoming.
Isaiah 55:8- 9 (NIV)
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways,” declares the LORD. “As the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.
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