Sustainability

By Johanne Margarette R. Macob 

 

I GREW up believing in fairytales, in destinies, in happy endings. That sooner or later, everything will be okay.

I came of age adhering to Aristotle’s philosophy that man is naturally sociable as he/she is not self-sufficing. That families, friendships and other relationships are but God’s best endowments.

I took shape with copious dreams that wanted to be fulfilled, not just by myself but also by other people and institutions around me. That perhaps, that day will come when fantasies will turn into reality, those in the reel to be real.

And I still have those ideals intact. However, I came to realize that many relationships though built chiefly on love, trust, and happiness still fail; in the same way that goals, even those driven by gritty motivations are sometimes left unattained.

But why?

Why do seemingly perfect families fall apart? Ideal couples split up? Really close friends disconnect? Notwithstanding the exhilaration- and everything attached to it- that they used to share?

Why does one stop from pursuing his/her dream such as that of career? Why does an organization cease chasing the best upon reaching a goal? Where is In the face of what used to be a very-determined effort to go on till the utmost castles in the sky appear real-life.

I can list down a lot of reasons but I think all those will boil down to one thing: sustainability, the lack of such, particularly.

Sustainability: to maintain, carry on, keep up…with the things that matter. It’s simply about starting out something, and not settling in, instead nourishing it as how you did when you began your life with it.

In relationships, we tend to give our finest, put our best foot forward in the beginning until we become complacent in thinking that the link will hang around as long as we want to.

We need the company of others- such as our families- to live through life. Apart from our by-blood affiliates, we also meet people and when they have the things we admire or need, then we tire of them.

We usually work out things in the first phases of the relationship but still, sometimes, end up our separate ways. Because either or both has/have stopped being how we were when we first met, we halted all the efforts we used to give to the relationship. We blocked all the nurturing. So it died, along with sustainability.

As for the aspirations that died, we started out with too many to mention ideals but wind up finishing nothing.

Let us recall our dreams and live them, again. Let us not be contented with who we are now. The possibilities of us being more and better remain.

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