About Me
TLDR: Helping the environment through my creativity helps my anxiety and I hope to inspire others.
Where to start...You can say I dabble in the Reddit world, which is healthy and unhealthy. Healthy when I read uplifting news and see cute pictures of animals. Unhealthy when I read depressing stories about individuals not believing in climate change, waste poisoning our oceans, and deforestation for profit. I'm not saying people shouldn't seek out a livelihood to support their family but perhaps we can take steps to decrease our venomous mark on the world? Spending so much time in the Reddit "black hole" that is depressing as heck has made me develop anxiety towards my future and the future of our children.
A way to resolve this is simply not using Reddit, right? I detoxed for an almost never-ending month in which I felt completely cut off from the world. News channels don't seem to cover the stories I care about and the ignorance gave me more anxiety resulting with me crawling back. But during my one-month hiatus, I wondered what I could do to help my anxiety sourced from environmental issues. At first, I figured there wasn't anything I could do because I hold no position of power, which is 110% wrong. I have the power to create reactions, chain reactions that hopefully spread to the rest of the world.
What's a chain reaction? Well in current terms, it's when a social media posts go "viral" and a new trend starts. Have you heard of the #trashtag trend? It was an amazing thing in which people started cleaning their areas for social media approval... besides the unhealthy desire for social media approval, I loved this trend because people we're cleaning all over the world. Sadly, I think it has mostly died off, as most trends do. But I still want my blog posts to spread in order to help people reduce, reuse, and recyle. I promise I don't want "social media fame" I just want others to do what I do, or at least a fraction of it depending on their capabilities. Every small action, can accumulate to massive results.
With that massive amount of background, I hope you get my point. At a certain time, I feared the future and found myself emotionally debilitated because I was so worried about the environment. But somehow, out of this darkness, finding ways to help has brought a light into my life. Now don't go thinking I'm a hippie, because I'm not. Caring about the future of the environment is just a human concern. Everyone should be concerned because this is where we live, we only get one eath.
After all of this, if you care to know more about me... I love hockey, skiing, hiking, cooking, crafting, working out, researching, and the list goes on. I like to know a bit of everything, although my weakness is music. I've never been musically talented so I leave that to my music-loving friends. If you want to know more, just ask me.
Lots of love, Vanessa
Where to start...You can say I dabble in the Reddit world, which is healthy and unhealthy. Healthy when I read uplifting news and see cute pictures of animals. Unhealthy when I read depressing stories about individuals not believing in climate change, waste poisoning our oceans, and deforestation for profit. I'm not saying people shouldn't seek out a livelihood to support their family but perhaps we can take steps to decrease our venomous mark on the world? Spending so much time in the Reddit "black hole" that is depressing as heck has made me develop anxiety towards my future and the future of our children.
A way to resolve this is simply not using Reddit, right? I detoxed for an almost never-ending month in which I felt completely cut off from the world. News channels don't seem to cover the stories I care about and the ignorance gave me more anxiety resulting with me crawling back. But during my one-month hiatus, I wondered what I could do to help my anxiety sourced from environmental issues. At first, I figured there wasn't anything I could do because I hold no position of power, which is 110% wrong. I have the power to create reactions, chain reactions that hopefully spread to the rest of the world.
What's a chain reaction? Well in current terms, it's when a social media posts go "viral" and a new trend starts. Have you heard of the #trashtag trend? It was an amazing thing in which people started cleaning their areas for social media approval... besides the unhealthy desire for social media approval, I loved this trend because people we're cleaning all over the world. Sadly, I think it has mostly died off, as most trends do. But I still want my blog posts to spread in order to help people reduce, reuse, and recyle. I promise I don't want "social media fame" I just want others to do what I do, or at least a fraction of it depending on their capabilities. Every small action, can accumulate to massive results.
With that massive amount of background, I hope you get my point. At a certain time, I feared the future and found myself emotionally debilitated because I was so worried about the environment. But somehow, out of this darkness, finding ways to help has brought a light into my life. Now don't go thinking I'm a hippie, because I'm not. Caring about the future of the environment is just a human concern. Everyone should be concerned because this is where we live, we only get one eath.
After all of this, if you care to know more about me... I love hockey, skiing, hiking, cooking, crafting, working out, researching, and the list goes on. I like to know a bit of everything, although my weakness is music. I've never been musically talented so I leave that to my music-loving friends. If you want to know more, just ask me.
Lots of love, Vanessa
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