But Why?

July 28^th

I leave tomorrow and I’m so excited I can’t sleep.

I had a very interesting conversation today with a good friend of mine, that doesn't understand “why” I’m doing this. The exact words were

 “Why even bother? Do you think you’re really making a difference? You’re leaving your friends and family and putting yourself at risk and for what? I just don't get it”

It is so hard to put into words how much I care about the environment. People find it crazy to leave their comfortable situations at home and go to the most remote islands in the world, live in a shack pretty much, and spend your days doing conservation work and planting trees and stuff. I come from a big city where there is less than 5 % of its forest. There are countries with constant smog, where you can see the dark grey colour of the air in the cities, and its not normal. The whole entire world’s air supply is highly reliant on the little rainforests there are left in the Southern countries of Latin America.

This empathy controlling me

I see will never set me free

To be happy I need to be

The changes that I wish to see

In conservation and Preservation

I’ll always book a reservation

And heal the world or die trying

Because I can’t ignore it’s crying

I’ve always been a “do something” person. Talking about things without getting off your butt has always drove me absolutely CRAZY! Maybe because my mom did it too many times (I love her to death) but she has always had big dreams, and has been vocal about them, but never once got off the couch and into the world to actually do something about this and move her dreams forward. Despite her flaws, she has raised my brothers and I to do just that. To never let the “circumstances” blur our vision. She has always told us that we can do ANYTHING and everything if we just believed. Nobody can stop you from achieving your dreams, but yourself. Obstacles are just a test to see how bad you want it. If you don't want it that bad, they will stop you with ease. This is an opportunity of a lifetime, and I would be a fold to pass it up out of fear or doubt. As scary as it is to go all the way to the other side of the world to do something that I believe in. I’ve never felt more empowered in my life, and I’m filled with adrenaline not knowing what’s to come.

We’re dying as a species

And denying, full of feces

Or to be Frank, just full of shit

And the rich will never quit

Money, and pain for personal gain

I go insane thinking about it

I went to school and for “International Business” and Global Deveopment. I was taught the rold of international business, IN global development. Those fancy words just mean that all of the HUGE corporations that will put everyone out of business if we let them like the “ Walmart, Kmart and etc”  HOW they price their things so cheaply, and who suffers in the process. Dave Suzuki does a great job at explaining the current situation of the world with his books, talks and show “The nature of things.” National Geographic has constant proof about the toll our current way of life is taking on the planet. Even Al Gore’s “An inconvenient truth” as much controversy as the video has made, we are ignoring the moral of the message.  The world is changing, and not for the better. Like everybody else, hearing and knowing this fact put me in instant doubt. I didn't believe it, or want to believe it. Suddenly I was a scientist and said things like “that's stupid, it doesn't make sense, this is all a scam”

So my brain represses

While my pen confesses

Even I see bliss

In Ignorants dismiss

Of facts and acts I fear the most

I’m brave enough to admit

My pride is taking a hit

But this is the truth so many kiss away

There is more and more proof that climate change is in fact a reality. We even see it ourselves! Floods, droughts, tsunamis, earthquakes the list goes on and on….something is messed up about this series of unfortunate events. Though its not happening as fast as the disaster movies all over the world, we are getting small signals here and there. . . and STILL we choose to sleep.

We can ignore the facts if we chose

But in the end we will lose

We surrender the war

Before trying to score

Because it’s easier to die in our sleep

I’m going to the Galapagos because I found it as an opportunity to do something for the better. Though everything that is happening, is a problem within a problem within a problem. I’m tired of sitting around and doing nothing about it. My own personal solution is to contribute to ecological projects such as these, to help us breathe for just a little longer. “What are you doing? “ That is actually how I answered my friend. And for once in her life she had nothing to say.

End of Journal Entry:

The thing with writing when your “heated” is that sometimes it's a bit exaggerated. Now that I am reading this again I know that there is no proof of a relation between those natural disasters and the planets degradation. But for our air quality, I am still 100% in agreement with. The rate of children that are born asthmatic these days has increased immensely over time! Today it's the most in history….Why can’t the children breathe?