Using the Avatar Experience to Improve Yourself and Improve the World

[Marvellous Chester]

Well for me, Avatar has caused me to look deep inside myself and find out what I truly want. I was so moved by the way the Na'vi look after Pandora and Eywa, the way they treat each other and the beasts they hunt with respect, something about it all just felt right.

I've been taking much better care of my body since watching Avatar. I never realized it before but if you have a working body and all your limbs intact then you are, in my opinion a very lucky person. A healthier diet, regular exercise and nature's embrace make up large parts of my days now. Since before Avatar I had always had a strong interest in bushcraft and wilderness survival, some people spend all day worrying about losing their jobs and homes, not being able to eat or drink. Why pay for things that nature gives us all freely? Why worry about losing your home when you can go into a forest and make a new one in a couple of hours? My love of nature and my newly found desire to live in it has shown me that I want to live like the Na'vi, in a tribe where I can look after/be looked after by the community. I'm in the process of reading 'Healthy at 100' and one thing I've found out that sticks in my mind is that loneliness kills, which I can't say I'm surprised about to be honest, other people is what makes your life fun and love filled. I have been considering joining The Revolutionists because I'd love to live in a tribe, a close knit community where everyone is heard and cared about.

Improving the whole world is extremely difficult, there are people everywhere that have been brainwashed by society. When I voiced that I wanted to live in the wild, it was met with 'Yeah right and how will you buy food and where will you sleep, on the floor?' When I explain hunting and building shelters people laugh and insist you can't live that way. Well it seemed to work just fine for god knows how many thousands/millions of years! Unless people can be shown that you can live both a comfortable and green lifestyle, they won't take it. They consider themselves far more important than the planet and all it's species. Earth gives us everything we need to live, and all she asks in return is that we show her a bit of love and respect and can we do it? Most of us sadly cannot.