ranting: pareto efficient not!

sometimes i can't help but think how fortunate i am compared to those who are suffering poverty, persecution in my country or in Afghanistan or in Burma, etc etc.

and yet there are also a lot of those who are way better off than me. relatively speaking, i am suffering too.

funny how the rich gets richer (and in the process destroying the earth... see floods and all that) and the poor gets poorer (contributes a part of earth destruction but often times directed by latter... they are also worse off victims of the surging calamities these days... read the world news)

yeah...reminds me of the saying i have read in Marina square

UNTIL THE LAST RIVER IS POISONED AND THE LAST TREE IS CUT WILL THEN YOU REALIZE THAT YOU CANNOT EAT MONEY

or something like that... better yet, until the last plain is flooded, the last mountain atomic bombed and the last fish poisoned will then people realize that they destroyed the planet and they have to eat money as their main course and dirty murky radioactive water as their wine.. or maybe they have to fly to mars and start vegetation there, if they still have the resources. or from this moment onwards make money made of chocolate or something as nourishing...

sometimes i think that every time i indulge myself... the resources spent for my indulgence must have destroyed a bit of the planet, must have made someone better off and many others worse off...

funny right? i mean if we continue thinking this way, then what ends are we aiming for? we are supposed to live... and in doing so, the earth dies... but then we will die too at God's appointed time... everything is fleeting like the mist (oh by now you should know where my blog name came from =P)

with all these, it is so true that the whole earth is fading away just as the bible says... why live for the things found on it? like money, indulgence and power as ends... not means for something more meaningful to do in this life...

to see is to believe? look around you... look far ahead not just nearby, think about what you see... consider yourself and others... think about 120 years of lifetime and eternity... consider again... then look around...

do you think you can see or do you only see what you want to?

i guess we have our own answers and they might even be conflicting... very conflicting!

but yeah, ganbatte yo!

live your life the way you choose it to be... but choose wisely. and maybe in the end we will find out answers for sure... that is, if we have consciousness beyond the physical... which i believe so.

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what could this post do? make some people realize my point or make them feel miserable or both or whatever that is not stated? i have no idea. but this might be worth mulling over...
i hope.

because i am one of those who don't like to eat paper and stones.

p.s.

basically my point is, since we can't go around killing ourselves (a very stupid choice), let us become good stewards of this God-given planet... live!