Reflections on Awakening, part 4

It's difficult to maintain a daily rhythm of note-taking on this subject. Anyway-- awakening requires becoming a well-trained observer of oneself, a discoverer of unnecessary habits subtly instilled by society and the media in the course of time. One of the most harmful of these is compulsive consumption, especially if it supports irresponsible, polluting production processes.
Yesterday at the train station i watched a group of black-orange caterpillars dispersed over the bare stems of a handful of flowers; they were a bit confused, it seemed, for they had eaten all there was to eat. Some were just sitting there, others moved up and down the plant or on the ground nearby in desperate search for more food- but there was none (at least none they could digest). The scene reminded me of humankind today, of the way many of us currently use up our precious resources without looking ahead, until one day things like fish or metal or pollinating insects will be gone, and they (and the corporations that serve them) will act surprised and say: "Oops! But we didn't know ... "
(Picture: cinnabar moth caterpillar, Wikipedia)