FLEETING: Au Sable Style

As many of you know, I am currently at Au Sable Institute of Environmental Science for 5 weeks. I am taking two classes: Ecological Agriculture and Sustainability along with International Development. During our class yesterday we were asked to write in our reflection journals the word "fleeting" and could either write about that, or whatever we wished. I chose to take up "fleeting" and what it means to me, and I decided I wanted to share just a few of my random thoughts. Forgive me if any of the thoughts are incomplete, my mind was racing and I wrote down what I could get out in the time given to me.

FLEETING

Here for a second, then gone. That's what fleeting is. What was changes in the blink of an eye and everything will never go back to how it was. The 3 ants moving at my feet will never be in the same position they are just this second along with how the wind is moving through the trees, etc. Every second the earth is experiencing its first time being in that state. Like the orcas we saw today. In comparison to the earth's life, their lives are over quickly. Just like our lives. Fleeting.

So what can one do in a fleeting moment? If we give every second to a cause while we are alive, what can we accomplish? Who can we help? What benefits? For the earth's sake, and the sake of those yet to be born into this world, I hope I benefit the least.

In this fleeting moment I call life, what will I fight for? Who will I help? Because even though it is a fleeting moment, everything changes and will never be the same.