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Day 5: REPLENISH
While I ponder on how the 5 days flew past, I sense the positive energy around me that this challenge has brought about. I don’t think this challenge ends today but here begins a lifelong challenge to sustain which is the main purpose of it. I realize that it doesn’t take great environmentalists, just common people like us can bring changes for the greater good through awareness and small alterations in lifestyle.…
I’m sure all of you out there are doing your part for a greener environment/safer world and will have some day-to-day stories that may help others to see in a different perspective. Please PM me if you wish to take up this simple challenge and share your views to the world and make atleast a small difference.
There is so much to do, we have done the taking, it’s time to give back, one at a time…
Replenish actually means to refill/restore/rejuvenate/refresh/revamp, depending on the situation. Early this year, my husband’s employer had arranged for a mass REPLENISH program called “Plant-a-tree” when 100+ of their employees attended a daylong event and toiled on rocky ground to plant 50 young trees in McRitchie Reservoir to do their little part for issues like deforestation, soil erosion and climate change. What a team building idea that’s useful for the world! As a token of appreciation, I wrote a small poem for them titled, “Green Fingers” which they gladly announced in mass email to the employees.
Sai’s weekend outings are not to the play area but to treks in MacRitchie and trails on Sungei Buloh or to the beach where he gets to beat the waves and we take him to new countries or places where he sees more of nature and wildlife. We don’t buy him unnecessary things even if he throws tantrums, we don’t spare him if he takes things for granted or wastes them, hoping he will grow up with basic environmental awareness and social responsibility.
I always wanted a house where I can have tall tress around and all kinds of homegrown vegetables but I have to settle with my row of money plants and anthuriums in an apartment lifestyle here, we have to make the best of what we have 🙂 Seeing my babies’ green smile after watering, is fulfilling! My husband says, if you leave me for two days with your Sai and the plants and come back to see any of them dull, you will turn into a Bathrakali 🙂
Thanks to Abirami Gunasingh for inspiring and sustaining, God bless you!
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