Lampless 60 Minutes

“Malam ni mau balik awal tau. Galap sudah tu jam 8.30,” said my mom just now. *giggles. Cute, right. Suddenly it becomes a big deal to make sure you turn the light off at 8.30. Then I said to my mom, I’m sure the shopping mall won’t turn off the light. The bags must be full of stolen stuff if you know what I mean. Hahahahaha. 

Since this campaign has been aired in media, I read quite a lot of responses. Like, if they want the light out then why don’t just ask SESB to shut the power off and then whole Sabah will be in darkness. Hahahaahahha. My gawd. What’s the point? Again, my parents said the same thing last nite and I said, “It’s not the same. If they want to do that, they can certainly shut the power off now, not only for 1 hour, they can do it up to the whole day if they want! But this is about AWARENESS ba ni. If you want people to take part, put a little heart for the earth, something “small” like this would mean a lot in the long run.” My mom thought that this would be like a darurat or something. You must do it else you’ll be fined. Then here comes the funny thing again, “Will anybody be there to check around if all the houses turn off the light at 8.30 to 9.30? Will they have a guard outside the house or what?” Kiut betul ba pemikiran ni org2 tua kita ni kan. Hahahahaahhaha. Berabis sia tahan ketawa ba. Bukan juga funny apa. I imagine that they thought the 1 hour is going to be a 1 hour of silence, sitting quietly, experiencing the moment of darkness, counting every minute and there goes the countdown... 3, 2, 1 It’s 9.30!!!!!! Let’s get back to life! Switch on the freaking lights!! *Lols 

All this campaign surrounding -Save The Earth- is just a tiny thing a bunch of alert people can do ba. If you don’t understand why they even have the guts to start this, it’s pointless. Speaking of environment, our Mother Earth is suffering. The more we read about how the earth is in bad shape, it sure freaks you out. Even if we won’t be here to witness the worst that could happen to this earth, it doesn’t mean we can simply wash our hands and let the younger people think and find the solution since they will be around much longer. Is that so? Then who tells you that it’s going to be a LOT latter? What if the descruction happens before our very eyes, when we are still alive and breathing? No one knows the end line of this. We don’t know how long the Mother Earth can stand suffering. As far as human beings are concerned, as long as we are moving forward with technology, we have the money to buy what we want, to have good times with the people we love, that’s all that we care. We might not care if we have at all anything to do with the ground we are stepping now. The free air that we breath in. It’s the Mother Nature that is providing us with all that, then only it’s possible for us to exercise our right to live a life that we choose to live. Yes, the knowledge is here. The everyday thing that we do could do more harm to this earth. When you read somewhere that whenever you use hairdryer, it will contribute to the depletion of ozone layer. You think, How So? Alah, nevermind la. It’s just me ba ni. Using it for 5 minutes, how much damage can I do to the ozone? 

I’m not here to speak as if I were an enviromentalist. I’m just like you. But it’s good when they have a campaign like this, I have the excuse to spare some thoughts for this earth. What I can do? I think, the most basic thing is do not throw rubbish around. I know some people are just too negligent about this. “I don’t own this earth, why should I care?” You see, if you don’t even see the needs to be thankful that you have a ground to walk on, you can switch off the light for 24 hours and gain nothing. For tonite, you might have to switch off the light for 60 minutes, some whose activities has to cancel or delay because of this might have more to say – it doesn’t matter. Bottomline is you spare some thought and thankfulness for this earth. I don’t care in what way, in what element, in what angle...Spare some thoughts that this mother nature is making LIFE possible for all of us. It’s lent to us. It’s good that when nothing comes free these days, you don’t have to pay for oxygen. You have a million dollar house, but if it doesn’t have a ground to be built on, there won’t be a million dollar house. You built it on top of a tree? Even the tree needs a ground to grow. We can’t run away from this. This earth does a lot of underappreciated things for us. What does it needs from us? It doesn’t have a voice to speak, but the voice and anger might be expressed in the most cruel ways – do tragedies has to happen and souls must fly just to make us spare some thoughts about something that you build your life on what? 

After all the Mother Earth does for us, how hard it is to turn off the light for 60 minutes? 

Spare some Thoughts for the Earth.