Left Behinds

When you talk about leftovers, it's important to talk about the left behinds too. It's not only about the food.

All waste is technically the left behinds. The ones that are discarded without a thought of reusing them. And theres plenty that can be reused. Sometimes I look at landfills and think of how the garbage would be feeling. In a country like India, we have so much potential to reuse and repurpose multiple items. They don't need to be left behind.

In Bangalore, there is an organisation called Bangalore Creative Circus. It's a living lab made entirely of recycled materials (it's not actually a circus). The building was an old steel warehouse that now has plants and humans living together. When I visited them, I couldnt understand why this concept wasn't wide spread. Especially in big cities where we move too fast, we can at least find a small way to not leave things behind.

When you drive by old discarded cars, does it not make you feel something for all the discarded things? We leave behind our stuff all the time. But we also leave people too.

I'm sure a lot of us can relate to being behind. People move on with their Life, career, and places while sometimes we are the only ones hanging on. It's not intentional all the time, yet we end up becoming the left behinds.

And it's not so easy to just move on. Everyone is at their own pace and sometimes we just can't keep up.

But just like the leftovers, the left-behinds don't need to be negative. Maybe we all just need to find our own group who moves together while looking back. What's important is that we don't leave behind the left behinds.