I have learnt so much at the Virtual Meet Ups I have attended since joining Connect, than I have learnt in the past five years!
The focus and goal before joining Connect was always on; making Money. 
Apart from all the learning, exploring, educating and celebration going on here, I have gone through a painful reawakening;
- To see the world around me (through the various themed celebrations; :“Earth day”, “Mother language day”, “Ocean day”, “Nature Photography day”, etc.
- To ‘see others’; go beyond learning about what binds us as Local Guides but the world outside here through the various Social Media channels
- To heal the world
It is this third bullet point that has inspired me to write this post today;
I saw this prayer; and all I could think of was; “I heard this on Connect first”, “this; exactly is what Sagir and all the attendees hammered on during the World Environment day”, “this is what ErmesT’s ‘clean the world’ is about”.
Literally, I have carried the theme of this year’s "World Environment Day" with me; "Beating Plastic Pollution". I recall Sagir saying; "may that day not come when we catch plastic bottles in the ocean rather than fish. 
When I saw this text, it resonated with everything I had learnt from all those Meetups and I pledged to become better at looking after the environment.
This is the portion that strikes me the most;
Enable us to succeed in listening and responding
to the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor.
May their current sufferings become the birth-pangs
of a more fraternal and sustainable world.
Are you willing to make this pledge too?
Please share with me the shortcomings you have experienced in trying all that the tenets of Nature prescribes… Thank you.
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