tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31006871.post4786565690578977626..comments2008-08-03T03:43:27.336+02:00Duncan Drennanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18356141566912975917noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31006871.post-62814959144101787432008-08-03T03:43:00.000+02:002008-08-03T03:43:00.000+02:00I admire your heroic way of saving our planet. Had all of us thinks in common points as you do then this world gets better to live by.<BR/><BR/>Brilliant!emjasnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-31006871.post-68871711736380372422008-07-29T09:07:00.000+02:002008-07-29T09:07:00.000+02:00Man, I got shivers when I read that. We all have to wake up and start seeing our habits for what they are - excessive and profligate - but it sometimes takes a strong statement, like yours, for the truth to hit home. <BR/><BR/>The further down the path of sustainable living that I go, the more I realise how wasteful I have been in my life, and I marvel at how, even now, those old thought-patterns still rear their ugly heads from time to time (even though it happens less and less these days) <BR/><BR/>And the further I get from the obsessive consumption of stuff (the things that are supposed to make us all happier, but never do), the happier I do get. <BR/><BR/>Being the optimist that I am, though, I think my take on 'volunteering to die' would be seeing it as the kind of 'death' that is not the end of something, but is rather something necessary for rebirth - rebirth as a better, happier, one-planet (or less) kind of girl. <BR/><BR/>inspiring post... thanks :-)piahttp://www.mothercityliving.co.za/noreply@blogger.com