Xiaoyi
Today is Labor Day so I have an extra day off of this week, it made me feel much better and more relieved especially when it’s Monday. I went for a walk in my neighborhood after breakfast to digest better, because I ate I little bit too much due to my happiness. I didn’t bring my phone so I could enjoy the fresh air in the morning, infact I didn’t bring anything except my keys, because I knew that I wasn’t going to need them for a walk. My neighborhood is so close to the campus, like just across the street. It’s peaceful and beautiful in this late summer / early fall season. I thought there aren’t going to be so many people around because it’s holidays and people all want to relax by sleeping in. But when I reached out Braddock road while randomly thinking, I realized that there are still many people out driving as many as usual, and somehow even more. I thought maybe people would like to take the opportunity to go outside and have fun like a picnic or going to the mall. The weather was very good in the morning, it’s not so hot and the sunshine was not so strong back then. Later in the afternoon it’s so hot under the sunlight and even rained at dinner time.
And after my lunch, I was watching old downloaded tv shows on my computer, I guess that might be counted as watching tv. I like watching crime shows, especially those fast-styled ones with one case in every episode. Rizzoli and Isles is one of my favorite shows that tells stories with human natures in many ways but mainly in humor and still make me think, also the cases are not horrible which would keep me up at night. This episode I was watching is about digging wells and making dirty money out of it. A BCU graduate student in earth science, being a vegan and use cruelty free things, got murdered because she found out that the yoga master she’s been following with has secretly bought a big number acres by using the non-profit name of his yoga lessons. And he was crashing oil out of shale that contaminated one of the seven lakes in Boston. This student only died because she found out and stole some of the shale and water sample from the yoga master, so that yogi killed her to shut her mouth down.
I was just relaxing and enjoying my day off, but from my experience today I could see that people are all relying on high level techniques like driving a car, only few would choose to walk or using cruelty free stuff even if they knew that those can be less harmful to the earth. The victim in the tv shows is doing that because she loves the Earth and earth science. But I think all people should be considering doing it. The start could be very simple, just try to drive less and buy things from stores that are together or close to each other, or try to use natural stuff instead of chemical compounds. It’s not only for the public or our next generations which some people do not care at all. It’s also for everyone that could benefit from avoiding heavy traffic and price raising of rarity.