I’m a hypocrite, so are you.

Let me get right to the point. I’m a hypocrite and so are you. I don’t want this place to be a place of virtue signalling so I’m going to come right out and say it. I work for an oil company. I work in oil and gas. I drive a car with an internal combustion engine. I produce waste, and I buy things that come in packaging. Sometimes I drive to a place when I should walk, and I take planes (or at least I did) to fly to places on vacation. I take small pleasures in buying little things and I probably buy my kids too much crap. Like I said, I’m a hypocrite. I used to take solace in the fact that our household produced so little garbage, until I realized that I had been duped by the people who told me that recycling worked. I am a create of convenience and buy too many things to make my life easier, and I don’t try hard enough to buy things second hand. Here’s the thing. I know you are a hypocrite too. You rely on oil and gas and electricity to make your life work. We both suck. We are all on the spectrum of pieces of shit. So… let’s all try to move further up (or is it down?) the spectrum of being pieces of shit to being somewhat less of a piece of shit. No judgement here. I’m trying, but sometimes I don’t try hard enough. Let’s call it what it is and move forward.