AND THE SCALES FELL FROM MY EYES - DEEPER UNDERSTANDING THROUGH A MOVIE

The night before yesterday:
When I heard the title of the movie a friend told me about, I somehow didn't want to see it. "How our food is destroying the planet" a movie that was shown on ORF 2 days ago at 11:05pm - it's still on in the media library for 4 days. 

Unusual for me - my thoughts were racing:
"Not again! -that was my first reaction - a movie about food, the effect of mass production of animals and fish on the environment, nature, our planet... surely terrible news.
When I already eat almost exclusively vegetarian, vegan anyway.
I don't even want to hear, see or read it - I've seen and experienced enough touching things in the last few weeks.
And this after a wonderful morning, the delicious breakfast with my daughter Sarah, the pleasurable walk with her and my grandson Levi in the golden afternoon sun. The wonderful photos in the gardens of Baden.
I'm in such a good mood, open, happy - I don't want to burden myself. And then I decided to see him after all.

And the scales fell from my eyes, I saw clearly, even more, how we humans shape reality in our world in the truest sense of the word. Yes, how I work, how we work.

Like our daily, simple decisions:
What do I buy for dinner? What do I cook for myself, prepare for myself, for my loved ones? What do I eat, what do I consume?...
Influences living life on our mother earth - makes it grow and flourish or kills it.

I could only see it in two parts and had to pause because it touched me so much. I took a sip of water, looked into the darkness of the night, breathed in the air after a rain shower - it smelled of freshness, of vitality, of growth, of new beginnings.

And I recognized - precisely because the film acts without a threatening index finger, without a guilty conscience: Everything is always connected to everything. I am free.

I decide - I can live and love independently of all other people - and connected with all other people, with nature, with the existence of humans, animals, plants... through my simple knowledge and my simple corresponding actions.

I can - whether the politics change or not, whether the economy changes or not, whether we awaken or not, whether we save the world or not... just through my food, my clothes, my physical and mental movement, my sleep, my words... flourish through my everydayness and flourish through connectedness.

I work - now.

My additional comment on the film:
In the second half of the film, I would have shown once again the immeasurable beauty of our flourishing planet Earth, once again the abundance, the colors, the shapes, the jungle, the sea, animals, plants, us humans - the harmony of existence.
That will be when we - each and every one of us - transform ourselves into life.

The Flight of the Starlings
Ballet in the Evening Sky
A Sunset
Golden Shimmer
My Heart Marvels
The Air
Taste of Life
Blooms Green
The Silence
The Song of the Chirps
Vastness
I
Forever
Part