Silent Spring has Sprung

Rachel Carson Was Right

By Vonia Martin

The spring of the year 2020 was the Silent Spring the author Rachel Carson warned us about in her book of the same title. There are still pocket of birds here and there but nothing like there use to be. I hope it was all worth it, people, the greatest generation that ever lived my ass!!!! We have to stop honoring people that have helped destroy this planet! I don't care in whose name they did it, it doesn't matter, it never did. All that does matter is that we find away to save the lives of our future generations. Without this planet they will never exist. 

What if all we have to do is treat this planet like it's the only one because IT IS! Even if there are other earths out there we have no idea how to reach them within a life span. Things in space are in no hurry everything moves so slow. 

Why aren't we asking the question " Why can't we get off this planet and into space?" What secrets are we blind to because if we were allowed to leave and spread our disease all would be lost? It's our inability to treat this planet like the God it is that keeps us here, stagnate. We all know what that means, sure death. The universe isn't just sitting out there waiting for us to color it alive, or is it? It sure doesn't look like it's in any hurry to do anything else and since we aren't it's starting to die just like this beautiful life giving sphere we call earth. For some reason we must have decided to take it for granted that as soon as we where done with this planet we'd just move to the next one. Never mind that we had absolutely no idea how to go about making that happen but believing it made it easier to continue to treat Mother Nature like shit. As long as the powers that be made all kinds of money at the enviroments expense. SHAME ON THEM!!!! If you are dead, lucky you for not having to stick around to be accountable for what you and your partners have done. Why are we still putting up new non sustanable buildings? Why are we still pouring concrete and producing nuclear power? What exactly are we doing different to save our only parent, Mother Earth? Why are we continuing such bad behavior? What more proof do we need? Why do we keep doing the same things over and over and expect different results? We know what we have to do but no one is doing it except those that are staying at home. The people that took this situation and rolled with the pandemic, adjusting your life to what ever life threw at you and your family. My admiration has multiplied to a number they have no word for yet, it is that high. Any and all parents that are staying home with their kids not only to ensure their physical safety but their mental safety as well. With all that is going on and the changes to every day life they have had to make being alone for any amount of time maybe too much. As always they need to stay busy and so do we, there is never a bad time to start a family work out, after consulting your doctor of course. 

There isn't any situation that we can't handle and many we already have. Ones that no one should have to deal with I believe we have done so as successfully as anyone could. Some may call me a loser because I have hardly any monetary wealth but that only makes me smart, in my eyes. Granted, I see things different then most and oddly usually correct. This isn't by accident and neither is anything else I have done in my life that includes my drug use. The alternative was much much worse, so here I am in all my flawed glory, 

My point is that it is okay not to be perfect or happy all the time. If you feel like bitching, bitch. If something is bothering you talk it out, I'll listen. It's okay to be average and/or normal, not everyone wants to be famous nor should you feel bad if you don't. Not everyone whose been through a traumatic experience wants to share it with the world nor should you feel bad for not doing that. Some people like to keep their story to themselves, working through it some other way. Just because someone has gone through something horrific doesn't make them a negative person if they need to share the experience to get past it. Not anyone who has had a traumatic past shares their story to bring people down, on the contrary. Not one story has been written starting with ...and they lived happily ever after. They end with that line because the struggle is over. So why are we continuing to tell people how to be and feel? Especially those that have never known a bad day or have ever had to struggle a moment in their over privileged lives. If you have aged out of the system expectations are lowered to the point of none existence so it's hard to disappoint anyone. Except me! Please, whatever you do take your health and your education into your own hands because if you want a future you will need these two things above all else. Money and material things can and will be stolen from you so get over having anything of real value. They can't take your knowledge they can take your health so take care of yourself and exercise after consulting a doctor or use your comman sense.

Please forgive me if I have offending you, it is not my intention, what is my intention is to reach as many foster kids as I possibly can that are aging out of the foster care system.