Sustainability

Sustain = from Latin sustinēre
Sus: under, below Tain: have, be, take
what you have as a base
hold back, support, foundational, continuing

The word sustainability seems to be currently on fashion.
Businesses, governments, academia and great number
of other organizations envision and pursue it,
believing that this will perpetuate their existence
as if perpetuity has been always optimal.

It would be optimal in the sense that
we can fulfill our innate ambition of wanting to leave legacies.
It would be optimal in the sense that
we can have something eternal
since we feel the meaninglessness of living an ephemeral life.

Personally I think that trying to live legacies is simply wasting our ephimeral time and testing our level of arrogance and greed. We are definitely naive when we think we will be remembered. We believe we ourselves will care for what we will have left on earth when death knocks our doors. Curiously, that is not true.

I believe real sustainability is not
about stretching the dimensions of time and value.
It’s about fulfilling the abundance of today.
It’s about letting plenitude flow into neighboring surroundings now.

Maybe it will last longer. Maybe it will value greater.
Or maybe not. But does that matter?

After all, we leave the earth plainly naked
just in the same way as we came.
And what history may judge will become irrelevant, completely irrelevant, when we are already prized in our next lives.