My mindful hunting game!

8 days ago

Greetings!

Have you been to market recently? I never knew we could get to this point in life. The prices of goods are outrageous. The hunger and anger on people's face is worrisome. No one could console each other. Everyone keeps lamenting but no one could pay lesser than the tagged price. So, people had no choice than to buy or borrow money because children are at home hungry and waiting.

I could only nod my head and thank my God for the minimalist lifestyle I adopted and practising. In fact, as a minimalist, mindfulness is our watchword. We pay keen attention to everything including: what we eat, what we wear, how we live and what is going on around us. TO me especially, I am always mindful of what goes on around me. I pay so much attention to the economic situation around me. I saw how much people groan before they could feed and how much we need food security.

As a minimalist, I became so mindful of every opportunity in my environment to alleviate hunger, eradicate depression and embrace happiness. I realized it is not everything we would go to market for and be lamenting about. I started cultivating a garden in my compound with my husband, having seen what happened in the market. I planted vegetables, pepper, plantain, banana and cassava to enhance food security in my home.

Imagine, out of my mindfulness also, I became conscious of those bush animals that come into my garden to eat my cassava on daily basis. Instead of bowing down in grief, I saw it as opportunity. You know, minimalism opens our eyes and we reason faster and better than we could ever imagine. The economy is worse but we have to make ourselves happy with whatever have. So, I saw the need for game hunting. It would not only make me happy and draw me far away from depression but also provide me some bush meat, if I hunt my game in the garden so well and I know bush meat could be so sumptuous.

So, I set trap with some baits within the garden to hunt whatever animal disturbing the peace of my garden and to also have them for food.

Oh, my trap has been doing so well. It catches for me so often that I rarely go to market to buy meat. I even heard d that meat has also doubled in price, it didn't get to me because I'm always mindful of any bush animal in my garden and I'm making do with what I have.

I even read that bush meat is of great benefits. I read how it is less in calories and contains iron, zinc and other good things needed in the body.

Going by the situation in the country, we have to be mindful of our living in order not to run into debt, go into depression or have hypertension. You need to know how happy I am whenever I'm wetting, harvesting my plants at home and setting trap for those animal. The joy becomes more palpable when I my trap catches.