The Lorax.

"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not."

I just watched The Lorax two days ago and I think it's one of the best movies for children. It taught children to care about the earth in a very easy to understand way yet totally hitting the right point. Simply the best campaign.

It is so easy to take for granted the things that we already have without having to make any effort. Such as, the earth. When we were born in this world, we already have access to the resources of this earth without having to make any effort. For example, the air that we breathe, it's for free and accessible for us anytime and anywhere :) - but having all those resources stored for us, somehow has made us taking everything for granted. We tend to think that all of the resources would always be there for us when we need them and then forget that we need to preserve them and maintain them because the truth is they would not always be there. 

Our greed has somehow blind us from seeing the fact that the Earth needs to be nurtured and taken care of. We take her love for granted. We destroy her with our own hand even after all the things she has given us. We did that throughout the generation in history and apparently mother Earth is getting tired of everything that she then screamed for help in form of natural disasters which sometimes don't happen because of the natural cause but as the effect of human intervention in the balance of nature. 

A very eye opening campaign was held recently called Save Sharks campaign. It's a campaign to preserve the existence of Sharks. Sharks are often blamed as the enemy of human beings, the antagonist, the bad guy when in fact, we are more of a threat to them than them to us. In certain places, people consume shark's fin for their food, but little that they know or aware than the process of getting the fins are a very barbaric process for the sharks and also little that they know, that if the sharks become extinct the whole ecosystem of the sea would be imbalance. 

Nature has it's own rules and it's own way to keep the balance. We know that there is a system called the food chain and each part of the food chain has the power to control the population. We do need to be aware that everything is in the right proportion and by destroying it, we're destroying our own future. Remember, that we are part of a big chain reaction that everything that we do will have a ripple of effects, bad or good. So, if you still wish to see the future for your next generation, you should start to care, you should take part in building it for them. 


Never think that to save the earth you would need to have a BIG project first, well, by simply throwing your trash into the garbage bin would already be helpful in keeping the environment clean and healthy. Other thing that you could do is mind the use of water, don't waste it, use it only when you need it. Those are just some examples on the little things you can do to make a contribution to save the earth and if you care enough, you will find many other ways :)

"Its not about what it is, Its about what it can become."

The words above is another catchy phrase from The Lorax. The Once-ler said this to Ted when he gave him the last seed of the Thneed tree. Watching this scene, I remember something that my pastor used to say, "when you're holding a seed, you are actually holding a tree because a seed carries a potential to be a tree. that is why you can never look down on other people because you don't know what kind of potential does he/she have within him/her. you might never know if you're sitting next to a future president of this country or a successful businessman."


Yes, it is not about what it is, it is about what it can become. Each of us has a great potential buried somewhere deep within us waiting to be discovered, none of us were made for nothing, we all have a role to play and a part to fit in this world. Thus, never look down on people and most importantly, never look down on yourself. You will never know what kind of potential lies within you if you never give it a try and you will never know what someone can be unless you give him/her a chance to grow and explore his/her potential.


When you're on your way to reach your dreams and you feel like giving up because it feels so hard, DON'T. Remember that the trees were once seeds, the seeds struggling through seasons, they didn't give up and they finally made it as trees. Keep hoping, keep believing and keep moving. Be brave to dream and be courageous to make it come true ;)