One day i struck up a conversation with my Grandma about sustainability. At first she had no idea what I was talking about. But once I explained to her what it was and what it meant she was all for conversation. My grandmother has been a very sustainable woman for most of her life. She grows eighty percent of her own food and it is all completely organic. She has even lived in Florida for over fifty years and has never owned an air conditioner. The biggest thing that we realized together was that she was being sustainable without even realizing it. She looks at the things that my generation owns and consumes and she thinks it is all "rubbish". She sees my generation and thinks that we are all lazy and just don't know "how to get our hands dirty". I see some of the things my generation owns and consumes and I see it as taking a shortcut to the same final destination.
The biggest difference between her generation and mine is the road to the destination. My generation is all about getting there. If we could, we would get there yesterday. We want to get there so we can move on and go to the next stop. Her generation is all about the journey. It is all about how you get there and what you learn along the way. It is all a growing experience to her, and my generation is missing out on it. Her greatest point was "what will have to happen for you to learn that it is the wrong way of thinking? What tragedy must happen?"
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