FRESH AIR
I do not know about other countries, but when I'm with someone and they say they want to take some fresh air I just laugh at them and ask one question. Is the air fresh? Their answers are always similar. Some would rephrase and say they meant a cool breeze, others would say they just want air, while some will say they just want to go outside. Either way, they all agree that the air isn't fresh. In Port Harcourt where I live, one thing is very common, even in the Government residential Areas. The gutters smell, and the smell is bad. There are places where breathing is very difficult, because of the odor in that area. I often wonder how the people living around there cope because they have to breath unhealthy air and inhale those foul smells every single day. As much as I hate to admit, their immune system must be very strong to deal with it because anyone not used to such would fall sick almost instantly.
A healthy environment for me means an environment void of any impediment in the air. From garbage to industrial or artificial impediments. I can't remember when last I was in an environment I could call fresh. I think It's been two years now, it was my pastor's house, he built his duplex on a 20 acre of land, with lots of trees surrounding him. I don't know how he manages it, but whenever I enter that environment, the atmosphere itself is different. You get to experience nature to the fullest as a stream cuts across his land where you can go feel the morning and evening breeze. The trees there give good shade on a hot afternoon and when it's their season, you can pluck to eat. It's like a garden, something that's not really common in this day and age and in our society. A society that values luxury over healthy living makes such things look odd, but those are the things that catch my interest as my pastor found a way to mix luxury and nature. Luxury in the house, nature outside.
Anything that would make the air clean is something I would always support. We hear of global warming today which is as a result of industrial gases in the atmosphere. These gases have so far destroyed the earth's ozone layer and have been researched to be the cause of extinction of some animals and diseases we are now exposed to. If only our air could be fresh, I bet a lot of people would not have to fight the diseases that killed them. A lot won't be fighting the diseases they are fighting, a lot of disabled people would have not been disabled, I'm talking about at least an extra 1 billion lives saved, not to talk about the plants and animals that would have been in abundant supply if we could just breathe in fresh air everyday. Maybe my statistics isn't that accurate, but I think a bit of fresh air would make the world a better place for the living, if our atmosphere is dying, it's just a matter of time, those living in that atmosphere would die
THIS IS MY RESPONSE TO HIVE LEARNER'S PROMPT FOR WEEK 169 EPISODE 3
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I remember when i came to Porthacourt early this year. I love the city, but the mosquitoes there use axe and a long pipe to suck people blood. I saw giant mosquitoes there. Lol.
It will be nice if the government do something about the gutter and also, if the citizens come together to maintain the gutter.
I truly connected with every line of this article. hough I haven't been to PH but from what have heard people from there say, it's nothing different from the unhealthy environment places have witnessed here in the North. It’s so saod how "fresh air" has become more of a figure of speech than something we actually experience.