Since I was a little girl I’ve been looking nature from a window, I mean, from the distance. I know that we all have the responsibility to take care and contribute with it, but I can’t think with a ‘’green heart’’ or something like that, I really don’t know the reason. Maybe I’m that kind of person who thinks in other things in life but never thinks in the place they’re living. But c’mon, I’m not that bad as a green person, I can say that I help but with little actions: now that I live in a big city, most of my attitudes and actions have changed: now I can’t walk to other places like the school or relatives and friend’s houses because they’re more far from me, so I have to take any transport, and that’s a fact that I can’t change, unfortunately. When this situations happens I start to think in the last year, when I lived in Los Andes, and life were more easy and friendly with nature, you can walk everyday and use your bike any time you want, because is a kind of town, also they have a recycling program and you can put your recyclable trash in a special place; and the best thing (in my opinion, of course) is that they don’t use many transports: if you can walk and you have time, you just do that without a problem, is a quiet city with a lot of trees and green areas. Luckily, every time I travel there I try to walk around the neighbor or I just go for a ride with my dog and enjoy the fresh air and obviously, to admire the landscape.
But here in Santiago is harder for do something for time troubles or just a disorganization thing: the only thing that I do now, is put my trash in order to recycling it later and (only when I have a little more time) walk instead take a bus. I think that I would do more than that, but as I said before, I never felt something like a real connection with nature, so I don’t move myself to do something new, is sadness now that I realized.
Maybe that’s the reason of why I think that I don’t have a green conscience ,now that I think, is because any time I contributed with nature, I did it for other reasons and not for taking care of the environment. Anyway, I’m helping in some way I think. I’ll try to do something new in the short time, something like make other persons to think about their actions and the ways that they have for contribute with this important cause, we’re very selfish and I believe that we need more than just television, radio or internet advisement to make a change, I think that we need a real campaign about this theme like every month or something like that, and with all this, maybe more people (including myself) could join to take care and responsibility that environment deserves.
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