Yesterday and Today
Thank God I manage to run into my house before the rain starts to pour like elephant..er.. ok.. just ignore me! The auntie next door was clearing all the laundry in and was distracted by my funny move. So, she stood there and look and me, and I smiled back. Then she asked “do you eat potato?” “yeah” I answered. Then she told me to wait and she brought out few pieces of nice big pink potatoes for me! AWH!!! Thanks!! Then I asked “do you plant all this?” (because she actually have her little farm behind her house). And nope she did not plant it but one of her relative. WOW!
After clearing my stuff from the car, an idea hit my head. Yeah, this must be a good topic for blogging!
Our older generations seems to have better surviving skill than what we have today. Maybe because they were born in left fortunate era where not everything is as accessible as today. I remember my great grandpa was originated from China. He and his wife migrated to Malaysia and since then they were farmers. They learn to survive from war, and they plant their own food to survive. With the little things they have in hand to work on, they manage to move their way up from a little farm to many estate and soon a business which enable them to own many properties. (So, you must think that I am rich now ah? NO!) His son (my grandpa) was slightly a different man. Was not well in managing wealth and hence we depreciated from there. In my grandparents era, they have to go through war too. From there, they learn to plant their own vege.
I grew up in a village, hence, plantation is nothing odd for me. I have banana tree, starfruit, ciku, small mango, mango, pomelo, jackfruit tree, rambutan tree, coconut tree, papaya tree and some other trees which I don’t even know their names surrounding my dear wooden house! It is not easy to maintain them! My uncle would have to climb those trees to wrap the fruits with newspapers so that they are safe from bats and worms! Without much chemical, they grew nicely and their fruits are sweet. But who is willing to do that kind of job today? The only planting we know is to plant in FARMVILLE!
Today, we are surrounded with so many variety of food. All we need to do is to get the cash and buy them home! We are so blessed that we do not even need to learn to survive by planting or growing our own food. We just need to survive in the market place to bring the bread to the table and yet, we complain when the onions were ugly, the chicken is not fresh, the fish is smelly, the very got too many spots, mushroom so expensive, too much chemical used to grow the vege and so on. Besides growing our own farm in our mini garden, we cement or tile them up to make bigger space for our home and less work on maintenance (cutting the grass, watering the plant, condition the soil and wrapping those fruits). The fact is that mini garden can help to cool down your house temperature. Beside spending some time in the garden to enjoy the green and fresh air while gardening, we rather play our video games (the tech savvy generation), work over time (for more income) to cope with increasing food price, go party all night or maybe sleep for long hours.
With much service provided to make our life easier, we tend to take advantage of what we have given. How many of us today actually wash our own car? They either not wash till they have to pick some important people, or maybe just spend some CASH to send their car for CAR WASH services. Business is always and excuse and jobs are created to help busy people to complete their work. We pay people to clean our house, we pay people to cook for us, we even pay people to run our errands and many more. And yet, we complain… BAD SERVICE! I PAY YOU TO WORK AND YOU GIVE ME LOUSY SERVICE?
Like it or not, MONEY is the surviving TOOL today in our modern society. It is no longer our farming skill. Life gets easier when our bank account gets fatter. The world have evolved MONEY have take its lead in the society. But what will happen when one day MONEY no longer have its power? Are we ready to plow with out bare hands?
Global warming is not a myth anymore. It is now a reality. Gold is not the only option to cure but go green will be the ultimate option to cure our mother earth. Going green does not means going backwards. There are many entrepreneur move extra miles to turn green into their gold. With our little help we can try to support by using our own recycle bag rather than having the mentality of :
“20sen per plastic bag only. I have the money, I can pay for the plastic”.
