Appreciation

Over the past week, since the garden's dying so much, my mom has been pulling a lot of the plants and throwing them away. It surprises me how one can just pull life out of the ground and toss it. I had mentioned to my teacher that I was observing my garden, and she had told me, "We should feed the homeless with our gardens." After hearing that and seeing my mom just toss everything that didn't get eaten, it made me feel so wasteful. 

I think us as humans are ridiculously wasteful, and I know it's cliché to say that, but just imagine what we could do with all the stuff we're just throwing away. I'm not saying we need to send all our food to Africa or anything, but that stuff can help here, especially in Reno (basically the city next to sparks that holds the majority of our homeless). 

People nowadays are ridiculously picky and spoiled in my eyes. If someone doesn't think they have enough anything on their burger, they bring it back and demand something better. I can't imagine a homeless person finally getting money for food and then taking it back saying it's not good enough. I think if we had a little more appreciation for the little things that we do get, life would be a little bit better. 

This picture is of one of the cabbages that grew in my backyard. We never ate them and when we finally picked them they had green worms and eggs in them (if you look at the picture it's the green dot looking things in the center).