By: Edith Queen
I found this sign in Kyoto, Japan recently. So precise, so clear, so short, so direct.
There is a lot to learn from Japanese culture. And as an example, a small sign in English that tells us so much about them (it is not in Japanese like all their signs). Take your trash home, don’t leave it here, I’m not interested in receiving it.
Large clean cities, without garbage in the street and without many garbage cans, tells me that they take this very seriously, and that if you, a foreigner, do not have the culture of leaving the garbage in its place, here you should. do. And no one litters, not even the visitors.
A country with 136 million inhabitants, a population larger than that of Mexico, and with a much smaller territorial area, with a very clear ecological conscience (or respect for the environment), which asks you to take your garbage and separate it at home. of garbage by categories, and also if you do not comply with this, they stop collecting your garbage, it sounds quite simple, and it is.
Take your garbage, in addition to being an ecological call, it can also go further… it is a call to introspection… what about all the unresolved feelings and emotions that are garbage, and that travel with us, and that at the moment Least thought we want to shoot somewhere else, with other people?
As we walk through this life, we accumulate many things, good and not so good, and other things that are garbage, but we carry them, they accompany us but they also weigh us down, they take away our energy, most of the time without realizing it.
Many times when we travel, we do so hoping to throw away what hinders us, what we don’t want to deal with, what we want to escape from, we want the new environment to change our reality, when what we should do is analyze it, separate it and remove it but in the right place and at the right time… How? I am not an expert in this, but I have learned that we have to question, we have to analyze, we have to forgive, we have to see if what bothers and hinders me needs deep reflection and therapy, and if I can’t do it alone, then recognize it and seek help. . It is something that we do little because we do not like to reflect, much less question ourselves. But doing so will result in the opportunity to offer a better version of ourselves, and leave the world a little more beautiful.
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