The Earth is like a nest for humanity, and really all of the other life forms that we share this planet with. It brought life itself up from basic organic molecules into complex, self-aware beings. Over the course of its existence, it has been a nest for an uncountably vast amount of life.
But humanity is destroying this nest. This haven for life in the universe. We’re pulling out the twigs that our world was built from, kicking the nest to shambles, and killing ourselves and everything else in the process.
We are not yet mature enough to leave our nest. Maybe someday, we’ll be able to spread our wings and fly off into the universe. But I sincerely hope that when that day comes, we’ll leave our nest in a pristine, healthy state, in such a way that it will continue onward into the future as a testament to where humanity came from.
Hi there friends :)
It’s been a very long time since my last FreeWrite. I think the previous one I did was for day 508. I have no idea where the time went honestly, but I am hoping to get back into writing these regularly.
Lately I have been doing a lot of reading about the dire straits that our planet is in. The pollution, the environmental destruction, the species loss, the plastic waste, all of these things cumulate into the widespread destruction of the only place in the universe that we know can sustain life. I don’t think most people think of it that way. The callousness that I see people address these issues really horrifies me but there is not much that I can do unfortunately. I guess I just wanted to express some of these feelings with this freewrite.
Here is a gorgeous picture of a nest that I found on Unsplash. Hopefully, like these little birds will do, humanity will emerge from the shell of destruction we are in to a better, more sustainable society.
I am also going to be making my Freewrite’s an SBI giveaway. This is a way to reward my fellow Freewriter’s, and hopefully motivate me to do daily Dreewrite’s again. No promises on that, but I am going to make an attempt.
What you need to do to enter is simply comment on this post with a link to your freewrite. I will then assign you a number, and when I write the next post, I will pick using a random number generator. There’s no need to resteem or upvote, though it would be helpful to allow me to do this contest for longer.
Until next time,
Aloha
This is my response to the Freewrite prompt, a daily writing exercise that I am really enjoying doing. Thank you @mariannewest for hosting these.
https://steemit.com/freewrite/@mariannewest/day-585-5-minute-freewrite-monday-prompt-nest
Prompt: “Nest”
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