Do you remember January 1, 2000? Do you remember how much energy, time and money went into preparing for the next Century – Y2K. We bought canned food, filled up the bathtub, kept the flashlights on the ready…and it was an overwhelming non-event…and we were ecstatic! The first seconds passed by, then the minutes, and we started to relax. The power stayed on, computers worked, TV played, cell phones rang, and life was no different. It worked.
As I look back, I think we were watching the last of a generation of ignorance – as the clock struck midnight, the ball dropped and fireworks exploded, we were witnessing a renewal, the rebirth of a phoenix, if you will. On January 1, 2000, the pendulum had reached its amplitude as a critical mass of consciousness defined the period of needless waste. We are now charting our course back to understanding the implications of our decisions.
Many of us know we can no longer build bigger and bigger, consume more and more, and waste. The non-event of Y2K was the start of our next generation of healing our planet for completely selfish reasons: human survival on planet earth.
Sadly, many are still in this place of blissful ignorance, but the tides have changed. As our proverbial phoenix grows, the momentum builds.
If you are still reading this, you are already among the enlightened and we need to keep this tide turning. Our goal is to accelerate this mass of planetary awareness. Start small, help others to conserve water, walk more, save energy, waste less, recycle….help to build the habits of awareness to open their eyes. Once their bubble of ignorance is broken, it cannot be reformed the same way, it cannot be unseen.
Focus on opening the eyes of our younger generation as this change will take generations, and the people with permanent ignorance will be gone before they change their ways. Show our youth the way, as they will be the source of our solutions and help to chart this course back on the path from which we have strayed. We are all in this together whether you like it or not.