Why Is It (Pretty) Hard to Practice Green Living?

lifeobserver — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:19:20 -0600

It's been several months I practice a greener life in almost everything I do, including when shopping. When planning to buy many goods or only some goods but they are big in sizes, I always bring my cotton shopping bag. When I go to some stores at the spur-of-the-moment, I use my old plastic bags that I always carry inside my work bag.

It is so true that lots of times it's pretty hard to be different.

It's pretty hard to be the only woman who wears headscarf while others around you don't.

It's pretty hard to be the only person who brings drinking flask to work and get your working partners stare at your flask, as if you can read their minds, "Only kindergarten pupils here in town who bring flasks."

Well, yes, it is apparently pretty hard to be the only person on the store cashier that says no to plastic bags, even before the cashierperson takes the plastics to put all your stuff you buy into them.

Sometimes the cashierperson before me gruntles and sometimes looks freakingly confused.

Actually, the cashierpersons are not the only people who always give me a "what is this person trying to do, saying no to plastic bags, while I'm here trying to be nice to put her goods into the store plastic bags?" look, but other customers of the stores also.

So, looks like my problem in trying to be a greener shopper (in terms of the use of shopping bag, for this matter) isn't about my preference of the shopping bag, but about how other people might think about my preference. But so far, I'm pretty glad to be different :)

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Why Is It (Pretty) Hard to Practice Green Living?