My life in Plastic Age:

Even after the two world wars and up until just a few decades back people abundantly used precious and semi-precious metals in their life. Then the commercialization, rapid globalization and the supermarket revolution brought us the use of aluminum, stainless steel and plastics. By and by plastic seeped even into the lives of very rich people. And before one could even realize, here we are living submerged in the Age of Plastic.

Each container or object leaches or releases its particles, be it metal, wood, earthen (clay), stone, even human body, so does the plastic, and thus the organic matters become the part of one other through this exchange.

It is said that the courtyard dust of a goldsmith’s house also contains gold.

Earlier even poor people would wear a lot of gold and silver ornaments adorned with precious and semi-precious stones and pearls every day.

They would wear rich fabrics like silk, cotton, hemp, jute, wool which would be embroidered with precious or semi-precious metals, stones and pearls.

They cooked and ate and drank in gold, silver, bronze, brass, copper, tin, iron, wooden, leafy, stone or earthen utensils, which also supplied their body with highly precious trace metals and minerals.

Their homes and furniture were made and inlaid with precious or best quality woods, stones and metals possible. Using beautiful, quality and exquisite artisanal products was their everyday life.

Their working and other daily life instruments, weapons, carts and carriages, money, basically almost everything was made of something pure and natural material of organic and high value, which all is rare or too expensive to purchase or to possess today.

Those people greatly valued and enjoyed those things, so they treated it carefully and nicely.
Similarly they also valued other persons and treated them like a precious belonging, and their loved ones were golden for them. Their feelings of belonging-ness towards other humans were pure of 24 carat gold.

Could it be because their body and minds had developed that character from the leached out particles of precious and semi-precious metals, stones, woods, earths, fabrics, which they absorbed and consumed everyday with all their senses and organs. Because anywhere they could look or touch was something precious in their lives, even the dust and sounds of those precious things are very precious and that’s why the best of the music instruments are made from them.

However, today everybody of us are consuming the leached out plastic, plastic and plastic or some cheap metals with all of our senses and organs - our vital organs and even the fetuses in wombs are already saturated with nano and micro plastics, a cause for deadly diseases. These things are all cheap, temporary and disposable – use it and throw it, and then move to the next one, then what happens to the discarded garbage, who cares?! Obviously, when a person does not care for his own Self, then why would he care for others - where can the richness of feelings and thoughts to care, love and admire come from?!

So are these the reasons that people have started treating each-other as cheap, temporary and disposable humans?! Because what we eat, what we consume, we become that, as a law of nature….

My precious life in this plastic age… should I still look up for my value in the eyes of my loved ones?! And who all would reflect my golden heart or have their mirrors also become plasticized opaque now?! 

 

 

 

 

The images sourced from the net.

I know it is late to repair the damage, it is already very late. Still, let's go back towards the old and the pure, at least step by step - let’s stop trading the white elephant, we had inherited from our divine, wise and well-educated ancestors, against some plastic eggs in the market. Then maybe someday soon we will be able to care and appreciate the earth and each-other, too.