The real value of a meal deal

Next time you walk past a homeless person in the street and into a shop to buy some more useless crap - why not think of them and buy them some food that you feel they'd like to eat!

Then you can give it to them on the way out, as you go back out into the cold night.
Does it really cost that much to care?

Sometimes people just need to eat.

Yes, they are there. Yes, you did see and 'ignore' them. Yes, they are cold. And yes, those selling The Big Issue are actively trying to make a difference without just asking for charity.

Your attitude towards others shows the world what you are like. If you believe you are better than that, behave better and love others, as much as the love that is due and coming to you.

So stop talking about making a difference and pretending you care. Show it!

It doesn't cost more than the price of a sandwich and a drink to show you care about life.

Life shouldn't be about how much money you put into your pockets but how much value you put back into the world!

The GREEN Movement and the Good Old Days

Here is an email/facebook status I found that rings true. Anyone around the age of 35 or older will remember the 'Good Old Days', when being 'Green' wasn't a movement but a way of life.  Instead of today's society that generally doesn't care about where things come from or where they go - leading to the excesses, consumption and waste of modern life. 

If you're old enough to remember life as it was  described below, what changed for you?
Is it time to start caring again?

Bobby

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Checking out at the store, the young cashier suggested I should bring my own grocery bags because plastic bags weren't good for the environment.

I apologised and explained, "We didn't have this green thing back in my earlier days."

The clerk responded, "That's our problem today. Your generation did not care enough to save our environment for future generations."

She was right - our generation didn't have the green thing in its day.

Back then, we returned milk bottles, soda bottles and beer bottles to the store. The store sent them back to the plant to be washed and sterilized and refilled, so it could use the same bottles over and over. So, they really were recycled ... but we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

We walked up stairs, because we didn't have an escalator in every store and office building. We walked to the grocery store and didn't climb into a 300-horsepower machine every time we had to go two blocks. But she was right ...we didn't have the green thing in our day.

Back then, we washed the baby's diapers because we didn't have the throw-away kind. We dried clothes on a line, not in an energy-gobbling machine burning up 220 volts - wind and solar power really did dry our clothes back in our early days. Kids got hand-me-down clothes from their brothers or sisters, not always brand-new clothing. But that young lady is right ... we didn't have the green thing back in our day.

Back then, we had one TV, or radio, in the house - not a TV in every room. And the TV had a small screen the size of a handkerchief (remember them?), not a screen the size of the country of Wales. In the kitchen, we blended and stirred by hand because we didn't have electric machines to do everything for us. When we packaged a fragile item to send in the mail, we used wadded up old newspapers to cushion it, not Styrofoam or plastic bubble wrap. Back then, we didn't fire up an engine and burn gasoline just to cut the lawn. We used a push mower that ran on human power. We exercised by working, so we didn't need to go to a health club to run on treadmills that operate on electricity. But she's right ... we didn't have the green thing back then.

We drank from a fountain when we were thirsty instead of using a cup or a plastic bottle every time we had a drink of water. We refilled writing pens with ink instead of buying a new pen, and we replaced the razor blades in a razor instead of throwing away the whole razor just because the blade got dull. But we didn't have the green thing back then.

Back then, people took the bus, and kids rode their bikes to school or walked instead of turning their mums into a 24-hour taxi service. We had one electrical outlet in a room, not an entire bank of sockets to power a dozen appliances. And we didn't need a computerized gadget to receive a signal beamed from satellites 2,000 miles out in space in order to find the nearest pizza joint.

But isn't it sad that the current generation laments how wasteful we old folks were, just because we didn't have the green thing back then?