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CUT DOWN ON THE ELECTRONICS.

Yeah, so seriously it really helps. Not only does it help your eyes because they finally get a freaking break from looking at a screen all day, but it gives you time to actually see what's happening around you. I'm green. Yeah, that's right. So I think it's a good thing that everyone at least get a TINY bit of sunshine on you, and smell a TINY bit of the polluted air (or not polluted, but if you live in like a crowded city, you're screwed. That's what society has done to us.)

I've cut back, and I feel better. Like, feel better as in... HAPPY. YEAH. So let's all just go frolic through the flowers, and no, I'm not being sarcastic I'm serious. It makes me feel horrible to drive by the Oso Bay and see trash in the grass and tires in the sand and then all these adorable little birds standing among it all. I mean, SERIOUSLY?! Who can be so SELFISH and INCONSIDERATE that they only think about THEMSELVES and what's convient for THEMSELVES?! They are just little birds, and the only thing they know is their natural instincts and survival of the fittest. When something happens that disrupts their natural habitat and what they know to be their home gets messed up they don't even know what to do, but to try and find away around the trash. They wouldn't have to do that if people would just STOP BEING LAZY and find a trash can! I mean you wouldn't like it if someone, you don't even know them, walked into your house and through it in your living room because it's too inconvient for them to throw it away in their own home.

I love animals to bits, and I love the earth to bits and I don't like seeing it ******** up and s**t everywhere. I mean it's completely STUPID. America is one of the worst places on earth for this. I see it happen everyday, and I know I sound like some kind of hippie, but the earth rewards us everyday and we take advantage of it. It gives us fresh water, it gives us oil, it gives us practically EVERYTHING. And this is how we treat it. Sad, sad.

I admit I am a selfish person sometimes. I like to buy stuff for myself, I don't think regularly about people starving on the streets, I take for granted all the things I am blessed with... but, I have realized all of this and I have admitted it and I'm trying to change. That is why the internet is no longer running my life. The TV is only from time to time, and my DS can play itself for all I care.

Come to think of it, my reading speed as increased like 5x than it used to be because I've been doing nothing but reading. I feel healthier, and I'm catching up on all the struggles of college.

I'm not saying you have to quit using all electronics forever. I'm saying that it is good if you take the time (do it right now, and you don't have to do it again) and think about what I said, and how one day all our selflessness is going to come back at us. Just cut down at least 1-2 hours of using electronics a day.

I'm not lying. It's 100% effective.

Peace and love, Katanawing.