By admin 
Let me get this straight.
I go to the supermarket and buy sliced ham in a plastic bag, bread in a plastic bag, milk in a plastic bottle, lettuce in a plastic container, and ketchup in another plastic bottle.
But I have to pay for a plastic bag to carry it all home because plastic is bad for the environment?
Seriously?
Did anyone ever ask the consumer whether they wanted all this plastic in the first place?
We used to buy bread from a baker, vegetables from a greengrocer, cheese from a cheese shop, and meat from a butcher. Now everything is wrapped, sealed, labelled, and packaged for maximum efficiency and profit.
And when we get home, we pay again to have all that packaging taken away.
What a brilliant business model!
Of course, protecting the environment matters. But why is the responsibility constantly pushed onto ordinary people, while those making the biggest decisions about production and packaging continue business as usual?
Okay, sorry….sometimes I don’t know if to laugh or to cry.
Are we supposed to smile peacefully, forgive everyone, and pretend none of this matters?
Absolutely not.
Spiritual awareness doesn’t mean becoming blind to greed, hypocrisy, or exploitation. It means seeing them clearly without allowing anger to become our permanent state of mind.
We can question the system. We can refuse to participate where we have a choice. We can speak up without turning the people behind it into enemies.
Because there is a difference between recognising something wrong and carrying hatred towards those responsible.
One brings clarity. The other keeps us prisoners of our own thoughts.
Perhaps true freedom begins when we can say, “This is ridiculous, and I won’t pretend otherwise,” without losing ourselves in the ridiculousness.
And perhaps the next time someone tells us we’re saving the planet by paying for another plastic bag, we can simply ask:
Who created all this plastic waste in the first place?
With love and light,
Gonny