Fleeting thoughts

Sometimes, we need to take a breather.
Sometimes, it turns out to be much more than what we anticipated. Much worse.
My nightmare is alive! That's what my brain tells me.
I need to remain calm and collected. I know the future is going to come by and how bad can it get as long as we have shelter, food and clothes? What more can a man possibly need?
Let's take it right back to the start. How did we manage to survive on this earth in the first place? By tilling it, working on it to ensure our abundant food supply. If there were none of this, we vanish. We just cannot support our lives to continue without these essentials. So what do we need to learn? What do we need to know? It may seem trivial, but I am in complete agreement with some of the statement Larry Korn has made in his lectures. We need to learn agriculture FAST. We don't have much time.

From PETA website:

According to the United Nations, raising animals for food (including land used for grazing and land used to grow feed crops) now uses a staggering 30 percent of the Earth’s land mass. More than 260 million acres of U.S. forest have been cleared to create cropland to grow grain to feed farmed animals, and according to scientists at the Smithsonian Institution, the equivalent of seven football fields of land is bulldozed worldwide every minute to create more room for farmed animals.

Livestock grazing is the number one reason that plant species in the United States become threatened and go extinct, and it also leads to soil erosion and eventual desertification that renders once-fertile land barren.

more than 70 percent of the grain and cereals that we grow in this country are fed to farmed animals.

Read more: http://www.peta.org/issues/animals-used-for-food/meat-wastes-natural-resources/#ixzz368AZ9Wkm



Are the statistics worrying or what?
Jared Diamond's Book "Collapse" shows the hard cold facts that have happened in the past. What makes us so susceptible to these problems if we blindly keep living the way we're living now?
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/jan/15/society

Sidney

The truth is we are just one of many. 

A city bearing the same name. 

Watching this video makes me feel like it's home already.

Loving

Lihat Lebih Dekat

Pergilah gundah
Jauhkan resah
Lihat segalanya lebih dekat
Dan 'kubisa menilai lebih bijaksana

Mengapa bintang bersinar
Mengapa air mengalir
Mengapa dunia berputar
Lihat segalanya  lebih dekat
Dan kau akan mengerti

- Hidup itu indah, lihatlah lebih dekat. Maybe in the crevices of this unjust ol' world, you'll see its beauty shine through.
:)
Today is a present, a gift to cherish. Sometimes the worries of this world brings us down but remember it will soon come to a halt. There is no end to disappointment and negativity, it spirals us down into a bigger calamity of depression. 
Just look a little closer. Understand it a bit better. The wiser, the better.

Good night world, 
Novia

Pearl Academy of Fashion, Jaipur

I've always been a great believer that by learning from our history, past successes or mistakes, we can all improve in any aspect of life. The ancient methods and inspired designs that were applied to this building are great testimony on the advantages of exploring our past ways of living. 

Who knew one day could change so much? That's life. It can turn upside down with the slightest of shake. That's one way of putting it. But what if our presumed upside down is the actual right way up? Today, it's too early to say whether one is undergoing a hardship with no real prospect or just simply a trial that leads to a better outcome in the end. Changes I make now can determine the path for the rest of my life. Maybe. Maybe not. Everything is still obscure.

My heart is fluttering as much as a tiny newborn baby bird would do. As if for the first time.

That's when you know for sure that life is a wonderful.. If I could fill my days with John Legend's Wedding Song Playlist on repeat, I would most certainly take the chance.

Thoughts are buzzing in and out of my mind. Creating a whirlwind of excitement I have longed for since the unknown of days. Feeling of love towards the world and its people, joy and gratitude for life itself, the exquisite and charming earth I very much am thankful of. The greatest gift that God could ever give us. Love & life.  Without our lives' existence, there is no hope of love. You could say it's vice-versa, because without love, life would be a mere meaningless journey.

No matter where, humanity needs to have the touch of love to one another. Regardless of age, colour and races.

Even a little touch of communication and generosity from a stranger can create an enormous sense of belonging to this global society. The inclusive society that is meant to transcend the differences in languages, colours and races. It may be that this statement is still almost illusory to say the least. Though, it's for certain that kindness is still alive.

I would hope to experience a tiny fragment of it as I weave my way through this year's proposed journey. To this enchanting world, I hope my appreciation for you only grows from day to day.