I NON WANT
Today our yoga meditation focused on non wanting. This grabbed my attention, as moments earlier I had been non wanting big time. I non wanted the inevitable love scene in a romance where two people shower together, and instead of a quick clean-up, hasty dry, hit the bed, the counter or the floor, they make love in the shower for six pages. Shower sex! All I can think of is the gallons of water running down the drain. This especially bothers me when this takes place on a yacht or cruise liner, or in a trailer, where we know there is a limited amount of fresh water in the holding tank. It bothers me in a household when they carry on until the hot water runs out. I sometimes wish the icy water would turn their girl/boy parts blue in retaliation.
I non want people leaving the water running from the tap while they brush their teeth. How hard is it to turn it on and off when needed? Or those that throw their clothes in the laundry after every wearing when they aren’t dirty, or run the water the entire time they wash dishes.
I non want when I hear a friend bragging about the thirty-minute shower he takes – his way to decompress after work, and wonder of many others are indulging in this wasteful practice. How can you live with social media raging on about the green movement, the droughts, the decreasing amount of fresh water on the planet, and say, “Oh well, I don’t have to help out”?
I non want each time a new damn is built holding back more water so a few farmers can get a better yield, or more power can be harnessed to feed the expanding need for electricity. I non want a culture that never looks ahead far enough to say, “Hmmm maybe this isn’t such a good idea.”
Like everything on our planet, water is a precious and limited commodity. I non want to watch it disappear.
I chuckled at the shower sex – not something I give thought too these days but good point! I think of the little water we used on the farm and I know you did dishes the same way at the lake. I love my running water and dishwasher, love my shower, but it is a good thing to be conscious about how much water I am using needlessly.
Yes, those jobs can be done with a lot less water and a little more .
You are bang on with your concerns! I non want a world where we spend so much on defence when we should have learned to just get along. Think of how that money could help the lives of regular people instead of padding the pockets of the trillion dollar defence machine (probably in the USA). Non want is my new battle cry! Thanks, Madelon, for a new term for my every-day living.
So many people with non wants, and thankfully, so many good people making them happen.
Haha! Turning water on is a turn-off? Effectively, many things can be a turn off like this.
I particularly non want manufactured park owners to continue to evict homeowners from their park. That turns livable and affordable homes into lots of garbage!
Certainly something to address with the housing shortage front and centre. Thanks for pointing out this non want.