how to soften sadness
Feeling de-inspired, maybe even discouraged by this course I am doing on ‘management and communication’ I’d like to write about softening sadness. We were discussing the ways of the multinationals in this specific case Nestle who is quite shamelessly cutting down rainforests to make Kit Kats. This exploitation of natural resources by Nestle was brought to my attention by Greenpeace who have decided to stimulate people to express their discontent with these practices. Nestle’s behaviour, exploiting rainforests for financial gains, made me feel quite angry. When I looked at this more deeply, as Thich Nath Hanh so eloquently expains in his book answers from the heart, I noticed that I was angry but most of all I was feeling sad. Sad that Nestle’s people are willing to exploit rainforests for euro’s, money, that just made me feel disheartened. As I cycled through town, I reflected on this matter and decided I’d prefer working towards a happy goal instead of working from anger. It’s just not a nice process working from and with anger, to me it makes much more sense to work towards alternatives and make this into and inspiring and affirmative new direction as opposed to fighting . This is not to say I care any less about the shameless behaviour of certain multinationals, such as Nestle, but it makes more sense to inform people about their behaviour so they can make their own choices as to whether they want to support such practices or choose alternatives.
There are so many great alternatives out there already, I’d like to share a few great resources with you
For fair clothing
for fair food and which companies to support (and possibly avoid)
want to read something on the subject
http://noimpactman.typepad.com/
and the book Cradle to Cradle
Comments: 1
Thanks for waking me up again !