Make
Do and Mend in 2020.
Now
that we are in 2020 I think that it is time to STOP and THINK and
learn to “Make do and Mend.”
For
years even in my own childhood we seam to have become a culture and
society of
“Use
once and throw away.”
“If
it breaks buy a new one.”
“It
is cheep to buy a new one than to fix the old.”
“I
have not got time.”
These
are thing that I have heard my children say time and time again and
they have not even reached their teens. Already my children are
being influenced by the media and how easy it seams to replay things,
things that can not be replayed so easy are the things that we need.
When
we think about the things that we need we think of things like.
Food.
Warmth.
Shelter.
Money.
Employment.
Entertainment.
Not
always in that order.
We
do not seam to think about things like.
Oxygen
Water
Food
Clothing
Global
Warming
The
Ozone Layer
Fossil
Fuels
Animal/Plant
Welfare
Human
Rights
Education
Health
and Well-being
The
Economy
Which
are also important things to think about too.
Now
that we have reached 2020. it seams that we are now come full circle
when we start thinking about our lifestyle and how we live our lives
and teat the world that we live in.
A
lot of this is to do with the media and how the media influences us
on a daily bases.
Yet
the one thing that I think people tend to for get is the number 1.
When
I say the number 1 I mean you, you and who you choose to live your
life and how your life lives you.
Every
one hows the saying do you “live to work?” to “Work to live?”
This
is only something that you know and about how you chose or try to
live your life.
It
is easy to think about other things in life when your own personal
life is how you chose to live it. Whoever went it comes to living
some times it feels like that is all that you are trying to do.
Live.
So
what can you do?
I
always think about Alice in Wonderland when she says. “I always
try to achieve 6 impossible things before breakfast.”
By
Lewis Carroll.
Now
the things that Alice try to achieve are strange and rally make no
sense at already like “Why is a Raven like a writing desk?”
Now
if you look at the 6 impossible things more closely could you apply
any of them to your every day life?
Now
I would not want any one to think or 6 impossible things that that
could do before breakfast but 1. 1 thing that you may be able to do
every day.
Now
everyone makes New Years Resolutions, BUT who sticks to the?
Some
of use also focus on Lent and chose those 40 days and 40 nights to
try and make a difference to our lives or give up something.
At
lost of people seam to go though what I would like to call FADS or
are they really “Life Style Changes.” Do they really make a
difference to our own personal lives or other peoples?
One
thing that a lot of people have been fortuning on is the “War in
plastic” in 2019, by not using single use plastic items.
Will
you continue to do this in 2020 and what else will you try?
The
other thing is that people have become more paperless and are more
dependent on receiving things using IT which means more online date
is required and internet speed with 5G planed for 2020 in most
places.
Question
are we not just trying to reinvent the wheel and in time will we go
back to pen and ink when the world can no only support IT or provided
us with what we need to life our ever increasing “Buy now worry
later.” Life styles?
When
we buy any new technology what effect dose a new mobile phone, Laptop
or IPAD…. Have no our health and the world health?
One
major worry is the worry to our health with regards to poor eyesight
due to blue screens and causing
cancer and other long life health problems?
So
what is this currently add to my blog all about?
What
do I mean buy “Make do and mend.”
What
I mean is that maybe it is time to STOP and think! Before we go out
and start buying the latest FAD until really need something. Also
that it might be time to learn a new skill or should I say an old
one.
With
so many skills being lost include the ability to read and write due
to IT and the ability to buy almost any thing. Then maybe it is time
to learn something new that could help you in the future and become
independent.
I
am not talking about things like learning a new language, which is a
possibly I am talking about the basics like.
Life
skill.
Learning
to budget
Basic
reading and writing.
Basic
Cooking Skills
Learning
to sew
Learning
to Knit or Croquet
The
art of conversation and basic manors
I
feel that at time that some of the basic things in makes use human
are lost like being able to communicate with each other without
technology to do so even with our own children.
Now
that it is 2020 a lot of educational establishments will be sending
out information about up and come course that they will be running
some of these may be free to attend so it might be worth looking at
what is on offer and possible attending if you have the spare time to
do so.
Another
way is to use the public library and read and book to learn something
new.
You
could also obtain sometime online and possible use how to advice or
you tube to help you and learning too.
“Make
Do and Mend” in 2020.
Apart
from my blogs I also have a few Facebook pages and groups that I
manage that I try to post to with local training and information.
I
have include the links below that may interest you.
So
why not today think of one Possible thing that you could do in 2020
to “Make Do and Mend” in you life of 2020.
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