Environmental Happiness

In life there seems to be infinite ways to experience the sensation of happiness. In our modern age we have television, movies, restaurants, bars, amusement parks, clubs, and our inter personally connected internet persona's. All these examples are similar in that they lack a relationship to the environment. Of course there are exceptions to every one of these examples. But generally speaking, there has been a profound subtraction from the individuals environmental experience.

In terms of my own life I have noticed a skeptical removal from the outside world. I rarely take the time to experience the natural beauties that surround my daily building hopping of a life. Why is this? I continually ask myself. I have always been fond of the outdoors. Why is that as we develop (in terms of our time on this earth-not in assumed maturity or experience) we have a slow withdrawal from the nature that surrounds us? It must be that our responsibilities and obligations to others, as well as ourselves, have become too much of a burden. I do not understand why our relationships to fellow humans take precedence over our relationship to this earth.

Does our personal connection with this earth not hold at least as much, if not more importance than our relationships to those friends and foes who surround us? It must! We live on this soil to learn and to understand how to be grounded and stable in this life we are living. The earth is the best example of how to live ones life. The mixture of sacrifice (this world has fought for our right to free-will), consistency (waking up everyday to provide opportunity), and growth potential (good or bad, this earth is not going to stop changing) lend to us being able to live lives worth living.

I notice now at this tender age, that I can no longer take this earth for granted. It provides too much of our own goodness to forget about it now. I hope to never again forget the earths important and necessary role in the existence of a purposeful and happy life.