Throw Away Attitude

Over the weekend, I found myself looking around the house at the amount of plastic based items in my home.  Once again, it caused me to reflect on how so many items around me have a short term life...a built in obsolescence. It is so much part of today's reality, that mostly once doesn't give it much thought.    At the risk of sounding decidedly like one of the older generation, I scanned back to the period I was growing up..in the fifties and sixties and how very different things were then. From white goods, to crockery, cutlery,  furniture, curtains, clothes,  shopping bags  .. you name it ...   everything was expected to last for for a good number of years and maybe even decades ... and  especially in the fifties, the amount of plastic and man made materials was minimal compared to today. If we go back a hundred or two hundred years, then things lasted even longer .... as I often marvel at, when visiting older national trust properties.

And with that longer term life span, I think everything was more valued, better looked after ... I wondered to what extent that throw away attitude has permeated our psyche ....where even people, relationships, marriages are also influenced by that way of thinking.  

I just made a mental note to myself, to watch my own thought processes ..to make sure I value the people and surroundings in my life ... and not be overly influenced by that 'throwaway' attitude.